Staff Platform Development Engineer
Clearwater Analytics4 months ago
Base Salary
$148k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid AWS, and co-location environments.
- Lead infrastructure automation using Harbor, Terraform, Ansible, Salt, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Own Kubernetes cluster operations, workload scheduling, resource governance, and service mesh configuration.
- Architect and operate CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation with software engineering and release management teams.
- Build and maintain observability using metrics, log aggregation, and distributed tracing focused on financial platform reliability objectives.
- Support financial data connectivity including market data feeds, custodian ingestion pipelines, FIX, SWIFT, SFTP, and third-party vendor integrations.
- Provide Tier 2/3 incident escalation, lead root cause analysis, and resolve systemic reliability issues.
- Perform capacity planning, performance engineering, and cost optimization across compute, storage, and network layers.
- Partner with Security and Compliance on SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and financial regulatory requirements.
- Evaluate technologies and vendors, make architecture recommendations, mentor engineers, and maintain documentation and runbooks.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, Linux systems administration, or DevOps/SRE roles, including at least 3 years in financial services or FinTech.
- Deep hands-on experience with RHEL and Debian-based Linux distributions, preferably Ubuntu, including systems-level diagnostics and command-line work.
- Production Kubernetes experience covering cluster operations, Helm, RBAC, networking, and storage; Istio or Linkerd experience is preferred.
- Infrastructure automation experience with Ansible, Salt, Terraform, or equivalent tools, including designing automation frameworks.
- Experience designing software delivery pipelines with GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Spinnaker.
- Hands-on observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, ELK/EFK, CheckMk, or equivalent tooling.
- Strong knowledge of Java applications and JVM internals, including tuning, garbage collection analysis, and heap profiling.
- Familiarity with FIX, SWIFT, SFTP/FTPS, market data feeds, Bloomberg, Refinitiv, and custodian data integration patterns.
- Working knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and non-relational or time-series data stores.
- Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/PKI, load balancing, VPN/MPLS, and firewall policy.
- Experience using AI-assisted workflows such as Claude for troubleshooting, documentation, infrastructure-as-code, and engineering productivity.
- Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or equivalent, with experience managing infrastructure through APIs.
- Experience with SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or equivalent compliance frameworks and related audit, access-control, and change-management requirements.
- Preferred experience with AWS EC2, EKS, RDS, and S3; Proxmox or VMware vSphere; HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, and Let's Encrypt or internal PKI.
- Exposure to SEC, FINRA, MiFID II, investment management, portfolio accounting, or wealth management infrastructure is preferred.
- RHCA, RHCE, CKA, CKAD, or equivalent certifications are a plus.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance.
- 401(k), paid time off, parental leave, and medical leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance benefits.
- The position is based inside Revival Food Hall; geographic location may affect compensation.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanaHelmIstioJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonSpinnakerSwiftTerraform
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About Clearwater Analytics
Clearwater Analytics builds a SaaS platform for investment accounting, reconciliation, performance, compliance, and risk reporting used by insurers, asset managers, banks, corporations, and governments. It aggregates and normalizes market and trade data and offers front‑office tools (Beacon) that give portfolio teams real‑time visibility into positions. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Boise, Idaho, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: CWAN).