Clear Street
Software Engineer - Platform Engineer
$150K–$200K
New York, NY +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
New York, NY, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
About the job
Build and improve self-service internal platforms, automation, and shared services that help engineering teams develop, deploy, and operate software more efficiently and reliably.
What you'll do
- Build developer platforms, reusable services, and self-service workflows for infrastructure, deployments, secrets, and shared capabilities.
- Create and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and automation to reduce delivery friction and operational work.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve productivity, reliability, scalability, and observability through platform capabilities.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Production-quality software development experience in Go, Python, Java, or similar languages.
- Experience designing developer platforms, internal tooling, automation frameworks, or shared engineering services.
- Understanding of cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and distributed systems; experience with CI/CD platforms and Infrastructure as Code.
Nice to have
- Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Terraform, or comparable technologies.
- Curiosity about AI-powered developer tooling and emerging platform engineering practices.
Pay
$150,000 - $200,000 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Helm, Kafka, Temporal
AI focus
Experiment with AI-assisted development and AI-powered developer tooling.
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