Senior / Staff Software Engineer

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem as a diversified financial services firm. They are seeking a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to build and scale critical trading infrastructure and design systems for low-latency execution and fault tolerance.

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale mission-critical order and execution management infrastructure in Rust, including order workflows, execution logic, and distributed trading services
• Design systems that balance low-latency execution, fault tolerance, and strict correctness guarantees across distributed trading workflows
• Shape the architecture and engineering direction of a rapidly evolving trading platform in a fast-moving, iterative environment
• Develop efficient, audit-ready risk controls and venue-specific trading abstractions with a focus on correctness and performance
• Translate evolving regulatory and market structure requirements (CAT, Reg NMS, MiFID) into reliable, testable platform capabilities

Requirements:

• Expertise in event‑driven architectures and distributed systems (Kafka, Aeron, or similar)
• Expert at domain‑driven data modeling and design
• Experience with production Rust
• Deep knowledge of order lifecycles and capital‑markets workflows (buy‑side EMS, sell‑side OMS, or exchange matching)
• Track record of converting regulatory or compliance requirements into reliable, testable code
• Experience with high-performance messaging protocols; e.g. IPC, multicast, Aeron
• Deep knowledge of protocols like FIX, ITCH, or OUCH
• Experience with a variety of asset classes, including options, futures, crypto
• Familiarity with international markets and global system design
• Active Team Stack: Rust, Aeron, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, gRPC, Snowflake