Senior / Staff Software Engineer
Clear Street3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable model-and-tool orchestration.
- Build the core AI platform powering a copilot within a new AI-native trading experience.
- Design APIs and runtime components for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks.
- Build safe trading-action infrastructure with deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs.
- Partner with product and frontend teams on streaming, citations and grounding, explanations, and reversible action experiences.
- Translate trading and business-domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.
Requirements
- At least eight years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language.
- Strong knowledge of concurrency, networking, performance profiling, reliability, and distributed systems patterns.
- Experience designing and operating production APIs or services with observability, correctness guarantees, and security considerations.
- Ability to define platform requirements with stakeholders, design architecture, and deliver solutions end-to-end.
- Strong Rust experience in production, including Tokio/async, service design, and performance tuning, is preferred.
- Experience with AI/ML inference platforms, tool execution, streaming, or retrieval/grounding systems is preferred.
- Experience with trading systems, order lifecycles, execution, risk checks, auditability, or other mission-critical financial infrastructure is preferred.
- Deep experience with trading across asset classes and margin types is preferred.
- Experience with Postgres performance and data modeling in high-throughput systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with company equity and 401(k) matching.
- Gender-neutral parental leave and full medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- In-office lunch stipends, stocked kitchens, happy hours, and a well-located office.
- The posting is marked remote (#LI-Remote).
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About Clear Street
Clear Street builds a cloud-native brokerage and clearing platform for institutional investors, combining prime brokerage, clearing, and custody with APIs and modern infrastructure. It serves hedge funds, professional traders, and other market participants, helping them access multiple asset classes and markets through a unified system. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and operates regulated entities supporting global capital markets.