Clear Street - Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

• At least Eight (8) years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language • Strong knowledge of systems programming fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance profiling, reliability, and distributed systems patterns • Experience designing and operating production APIs/services with strong observability, correctness guarantees, and security considerations • Ability to work with stakeholders to define platform requirements, design the architecture, and deliver it end-to-end • High degree of self-motivation and willingness to jump into unfamiliar areas to solve problems • Bonus: • Strong Rust experience in production (Tokio/async, service design, performance tuning) • Experience building platforms for AI/ML inference, tool execution, streaming, or retrieval/grounding systems • Experience in trading systems (order lifecycle, execution, risk checks, auditability) or other mission-critical financial infrastructure • Deep experience with trading across asset classes, margin types, etc. • Experience with Postgres performance and data modeling in high-throughput systems • We Offer:The Base Salary Range for this role is $200,000 - $350,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.