Jobs at Clear Street

Supports investor relations for a fund of funds by building allocator and manager relationships, attending conferences, planning events, maintaining CRM pipelines, preparing investor materials, reviewing subscription and onboarding documents, coordinating meetings and diligence visits, and researching managers and markets. The role also provides broad operational and administrative support within a small, fast-growing team.

Manage the operational and administrative functions of a fund of funds, including investor subscriptions, cash and liquidity, NAV review, reporting, audits, tax coordination, risk and exposure monitoring, service-provider oversight, compliance support, investor due diligence, and process development. The role partners with investment, finance, accounting, legal, compliance, and external administrators, with potential progression to COO.

Security Operations Engineer responsible for deep-dive security investigations, threat hunting, incident response, log and telemetry analysis, and security monitoring in a 24/7 SOC. The role requires expertise in cloud security architectures, MITRE ATT&CK, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and forensic investigations, along with strong documentation and communication skills. Responsibilities include identifying anomalies, analyzing incidents, prioritizing multiple security events, and collaborating independently or with the broader security team.

Build a greenfield, low-latency algorithmic execution platform in C++. Responsibilities include developing FIX gateways, exchange market data feed handlers, venue connectivity, pre-trade risk controls, platform infrastructure, audit logging, and algorithmic strategy migration. The role requires optimizing critical paths for microsecond-level performance while integrating U.S. exchanges and dark venues. Future work includes multi-asset execution, research and backtesting, and international market expansion.

Operate and improve production trading systems across Linux hosts and network infrastructure. Responsibilities include monitoring, alerting, incident response, deployment tooling, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and performance optimization. The role involves Python development, C++ and hardware testing, low-latency networking, troubleshooting external trading venues, and making risk-aware decisions affecting live trading systems.

Manage Clear Street Retail’s high-volume commercial contracting process from drafting through signature and renewal. Prepare and review agreements, coordinate Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, Privacy, and Security stakeholders, maintain contract records, track obligations and renewals, and improve workflows through templates, intake forms, reporting, contract management software, automation, and approved AI tools.

Support internal audit planning, fieldwork, control testing, workpaper documentation, reporting, and continuous monitoring across risk, compliance, operations, finance, and technology. Evaluate internal controls, identify risks and weaknesses, collaborate with stakeholders, contribute to audit methodology improvements, and assist with advisory reviews, special projects, and regulatory initiatives in a technology-enabled financial services environment.

Build and maintain scalable Java services for Clear Street’s cloud-native brokerage platform. Responsibilities include developing authentication, authorization, and client data services; solving complex distributed-systems and data challenges; designing performant APIs; mentoring engineers; defining technical standards; and promoting strong system-design and DevOps practices.

Supports global tax operations through daily tax record maintenance, W-8/W-9 validation, U.S. withholding calculations, reconciliations, information return filings, audit and IRS inquiries, system testing, and process improvements. The role requires knowledge of U.S. tax reporting obligations, broker-dealer and custodial operations, large-data analysis, and tax reporting systems.

Manage institutional client onboarding, account openings, periodic KYC refreshes, and offboarding. Partner with sales, trading, legal, compliance, and client service teams throughout the client lifecycle. Support KYC due diligence, risk assessments, regulatory compliance, screening, manual research, issue escalation, and relationship maintenance for hedge funds, asset managers, market makers, and family offices.

Manage institutional client onboarding, account openings, periodic refreshes, maintenance, and offboarding. Partner with sales, trading, clearing, investment banking, securities finance, client service, legal, and compliance teams. Ensure adherence to CFTC, FINRA, SEC, AML, KYC, BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, and FinCEN requirements while building strong client and internal relationships and improving prime brokerage onboarding processes.

Lead and execute the firms credit risk strategy, manage a complex institutional client portfolio, perform quantitative and qualitative credit analysis and daily exposure monitoring, set credit appetite across products, liaise with regulators and auditors, and collaborate with Sales, Trading, Legal, Operations and Compliance on due diligence and risk remediation.

As a Surveillance Associate, you'll conduct trade surveillance reviews, analyzing trading activity for potential manipulation, and escalating findings to senior staff.

Build scalable data solutions and reconciliations to automate Compliance & Finance regulatory processes. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into designs, lead technical development, review code, and evolve standards for data pipelines and reporting.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you will design and implement scalable services, focusing on API design and system architecture while mentoring team members.

Build the core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and model orchestration. Design secure, observable APIs and runtime components with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks. Build safe trading action infrastructure with deterministic previews, confirmations, idempotency, and audit logs while partnering with product and frontend teams.

Own data pipelines into and out of the warehouse, dbt models, data integrity, governance, identity resolution, reverse ETL, and quality monitoring across growth, lifecycle, and brokerage data. Partner with product, marketing, and operations teams to establish data contracts, ensure accurate and timely business metrics, and support regulated financial data requirements.

Build and architect Clear Street Active, a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on large-scale initiatives while emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, and developer experience.

Own the reliability and quality of an AI copilot for trading platforms. Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, quality gates, monitoring, incident response, and model improvement loops. Partner with engineering and product on safe tool interactions, auditability, and user trust. Develop trading-domain expertise and measurement systems covering correctness, safety, latency, regression risk, and workflow performance.

Own and evolve the design system for a new retail trading platform, including token architecture, Figma Variables, component libraries, Code Connect mappings, documentation, accessibility, and governance. Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to resolve design-to-code gaps and inform product decisions. Use AI tooling to improve workflows and work independently in an early-stage design organization.