Clear Street is a securities and derivatives brokerage firm that is gearing up for an IPO.
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Clear Street:<br></strong></span></p> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale.</span></div> <div><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.</span><br><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more information, visit <a href="https://clearstreet.io/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://clearstreet.io&source=gmail&ust=1766166763873000&usg=AOvVaw3GfALVHjsW8XaQSab-3CbX">https://clearstreet.io</a>.</span></div> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Role</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As a Platform Engineer, your customers are our engineers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You'll build the internal platform that enables product teams to ship software faster, safer, and with greater confidence. Rather than simply managing infrastructure, you'll create self-service capabilities, intelligent automation, and reusable platform services that eliminate operational complexity and allow engineers to focus on building products.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will partner closely with software engineers to understand friction in the development lifecycle and turn those pain points into scalable platform capabilities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You'll work on problems like:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build self-service developer platforms that enable engineers to provision infrastructure, deploy applications, manage secrets, and access shared services with minimal operational overhead.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create reusable platform services and SDKs including identity & authorization, secrets management, deployment orchestration, service discovery, configuration management, and platform APIs.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design opinionated "golden paths" that make the easiest way also the best way for engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build intelligent CI/CD platforms that reduce deployment time, improve release confidence, and automate testing, security, and compliance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Improve developer workflows by investing in local development environments, faster build systems, ephemeral environments, and platform automation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Continuously measure and improve developer productivity through platform metrics, engineering insights, and workflow optimization.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with application teams to simplify software delivery, improve reliability, and remove operational toil through automation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build platform capabilities that improve scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Champion Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform engineering best practices while helping teams adopt modern engineering workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experiment with emerging technologies, AI-assisted development, and developer tooling that transforms how engineers build software.</span></li> </ul> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Team</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We believe great engineering organizations are built on great developer experiences. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our Platform Engineering team builds the internal products, services, and automation that every engineer depends on every day. We treat our platform as a product, with engineers as our customers and developer productivity as our north star.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our mission is to remove friction from software delivery by creating intuitive, self-service platforms that make infrastructure invisible, deployments effortless, and operational excellence the default.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You'll work across every engineering team to understand their challenges, identify opportunities for automation, and build platform capabilities that scale with the organization. Whether it's reducing deployment time from hours to minutes, enabling one-click environment creation, or building reusable platform APIs, your work will have an immediate impact on every engineer at the company.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you're passionate about building tools that thousands of engineering workflows depend on—and enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems while improving the daily lives of other engineers—you'll thrive here.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We're looking for engineers who enjoy building platforms rather than operating infrastructure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You should have:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.</span></li> <li style="font-siz