Clearstreet The DevOps Production Engineer at Clearstreet owns daily operation of production trading systems including monitoring, alerting, and incident response. This role focuses on system optimization and deployment tooling.
Responsibilities
Own the daily operation of production trading systems: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and troubleshooting across Linux hosts and network infrastructure.
Build and extend our monitoring and alerting stack (Grafana, Wireshark) and our deployment and testing tooling (Ansible, pytest), treating infrastructure as code and servers as cattle, not pets.
Optimize system performance at the software and hardware level — latency, throughput, and jitter — including work in C++ and hands-on hardware testing.
Interface with the many external venue and counterparty systems our platform connects to; notice failure patterns and propose upgrades that make the whole system more resilient.
Weigh risk and reward in real time on decisions that affect live trading, and help traders and other non-technical users navigate those choices.
Technical curiosity: a relentless drive to understand how things work under the hood — not satisfied with "it works," you want to know why.
Attention to detail: in trading, accuracy is paramount; you take pride in reliable code and graceful handling of edge cases.
Tactical judgment: the ability to make thoughtful risk/reward trade-offs, with incomplete information, on decisions that impact the bottom line of a live trading business.
High ownership and accountability, strong collaboration across engineering, trading, and operations, and satisfaction in work with a direct, measurable impact.
Qualification
Linux nativeA GitOps mindsetHigh-performance networking experience
Required
1–3 years of professional experience in production engineering, site reliability engineering, systems administration, or a related field.
Linux native: comfortable with file and process management, system troubleshooting, debugging, configuration, and networking.
Strong command of Python for backend development — clean, efficient, Pythonic code.
A GitOps mindset: you understand the value of treating infrastructure as code.
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred
Familiarity with C++ — our high-performance trading engines run on it, and the ability to read and interface with that codebase is valuable.
High-performance networking experience: achieving low deterministic latency and high throughput with minimal jitter (kernel bypass, hardware timestamping, multicast, cut-through switches).