Senior / Staff Software Engineer

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$170k–$240k

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Clearstreet Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Clearstreet builds and scales order and execution management infrastructure in Rust for a cloud-native trading platform. The role involves designing low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed systems and translating regulatory requirements into platform capabilities.

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.
Engineers who are biased toward action and can make thoughtful trade off decisions with incomplete information
High ownership and accountability across the full software lifecycle
Strong communication and collaboration across engineering, trading, and operations
A willingness to challenge assumptions and continuously improve how we build

Qualification

Deep knowledge of protocols like FIX**Active Team Stack

Required

Expertise in event‐driven architectures and distributed systems (Kafka, Aeron, or similar)
Expert at domain‐driven data modeling and design

Preferred

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