Senior / Staff Software Engineer

The Team

The mission of the Clear Street Active team is to provide best execution for every asset class in every market. Active is currently building a new, state-of-the-art, cloud-based trading platform providing high-performance traders access to liquidity venues across multiple asset classes, cutting-edge charting capabilities, and sophisticated order handling with the flexibility to service both the active trader and institutional workflows.

The Role

• 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.

What We Value

• 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

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• 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

We Offer

• The opportunity to join a small and growing team of good people, where you can make a difference.
• A new, high-quality code base with little technical debt and room to build new services and features.
• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.

The Base Salary Range for this role is $170,000 - $240,000. This range is representative of the start.