Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Low Latency
Clear Street, Remote
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.
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.
What you need
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working on low latency systems running in production
- Experience with production with C++ and/or Rust
Nice to have
- 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
- 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
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