Software Engineer - Platform Engineer
Clear Street · New York, NY
$150,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 5, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role focused on building internal developer tooling and self-service infrastructure for a capital markets technology firm. The work centers on designing CI/CD pipelines, reusable platform services, and automation frameworks — using Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and Go among other technologies — to reduce friction in software delivery across engineering teams. Suits engineers with 5+ years of experience who prefer building platforms over operating infrastructure and care deeply about developer experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 630 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 480–820
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is titled 'Platform Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; the 5+ years requirement and scope of work (owning platform capabilities across the entire engineering org) support a Senior classification.
Go, Python, and Java are listed together as a single interchangeable language requirement under the required qualifications ('Go, Python, Java, or similar languages'); Go is used as the primary name with Python and Java as alternatives.
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and Jenkins are presented as interchangeable CI/CD tool examples within the required qualifications section; GitHub Actions is used as the primary name.
Terraform is required ('Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable technologies'); 'comparable technologies' is an open-ended substitution qualifier but the requirement itself is a hard gate.
AWS, ArgoCD, Helm, Kafka, Temporal, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Datadog, gRPC, Protobuf, and Tilt all appear exclusively in the 'The Technology You'll Work With' stack narrative section — not in the requirements block — and are therefore treated as preferred/context rather than hard gates.
The posting states 4 days per week in-office and is tagged #LI-Hybrid; remote=false reflects that full remote is not available. The office location is inferred as New York City based on Clear Street's known headquarters.
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