Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer
Clear StreetBase Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build self-service developer platforms for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, secrets management, and shared service access.
- Create reusable platform services and SDKs for identity and authorization, secrets management, deployment orchestration, service discovery, configuration management, and platform APIs.
- Design golden paths for building, testing, deploying, and operating software.
- Build CI/CD platforms that automate testing, security, compliance, and software delivery.
- Improve local development environments, build systems, ephemeral environments, developer workflows, and platform automation.
- Measure and improve developer productivity through platform metrics, engineering insights, and workflow optimization.
- Collaborate with application teams to simplify software delivery, improve reliability, and reduce operational toil.
- Build capabilities that improve scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence across engineering.
- Champion Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and modern platform engineering workflows.
- Experiment with emerging technologies, AI-assisted development, and developer tooling.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production-quality software development experience in Go, Python, Java, or similar languages.
- Experience designing developer platforms, internal tooling, automation frameworks, or shared engineering services.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and distributed systems.
- Experience building CI/CD platforms and software delivery pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Jenkins.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable technologies.
- Product mindset focused on usability, adoption, documentation, and developer experience.
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions.
- Interest in automation, emerging technologies, platform engineering practices, and AI-powered developer tooling.
Benefits
- Company equity and 401k matching
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employees are required to work in the office 4 days per week
- In-office lunch stipends, stocked kitchens, happy hours, and a convenient location
Tech Stack
About Clear Street
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