Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer at Clearstreet · LumiJobs

senior

$150k–$200k

H1B: no

Clearstreet Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer builds internal platforms to enable product teams to ship software faster and safer. Develops self-service capabilities, automation, and reusable platform services to reduce operational complexity.

Responsibilities

As a Platform Engineer, your customers are our engineers.
You'll build the internal platform that enables product teams to ship software faster, safer, and with greater confidence. Rather than simply managing infrastructure, you'll create self-service capabilities, intelligent automation, and reusable platform services that eliminate operational complexity and allow engineers to focus on building products.
You'll work on problems like:
Build self-service developer platforms that enable engineers to provision infrastructure, deploy applications, manage secrets, and access shared services with minimal operational overhead.
Create reusable platform services and SDKs including identity & authorization, secrets management, deployment orchestration, service discovery, configuration management, and platform APIs.
Design opinionated "golden paths" that make the easiest way also the best way for engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software.
Build intelligent CI/CD platforms that reduce deployment time, improve release confidence, and automate testing, security, and compliance.
Improve developer workflows by investing in local development environments, faster build systems, ephemeral environments, and platform automation.
Continuously measure and improve developer productivity through platform metrics, engineering insights, and workflow optimization.
Collaborate with application teams to simplify software delivery, improve reliability, and remove operational toil through automation.
Build platform capabilities that improve scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization.
Champion Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and platform engineering best practices while helping teams adopt modern engineering workflows.

Qualification

You should have

Required

We're looking for engineers who enjoy building platforms rather than operating infrastructure.
You should have:
5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production-quality software 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 modern CI/CD platforms and software delivery pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable technologies.
A product mindset—you think about usability, adoption, documentation, and developer experience when building internal platforms.
Passion for automation and eliminating repetitive manual work.
Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with engineering teams to understand problems and deliver scalable solutions.
Curiosity to continuously explore emerging technologies, platform engineering practices, and AI-powered developer tooling.