Staff Engineer, Developer Platforms
Job Summary
Overview
Connecting clients to markets and talent to opportunity.
With 4300 employees and over 400000 retail and institutional clients across more than 80 offices on five continents StoneX is a Fortune-100 Nasdaq-listed provider focused on innovation human connection and world-class services.
As a Staff Engineer Developer Platforms you will architect lead and evolve mission-critical components of the internal developer platform. You will drive reliability automation scalability and developer experience improvements across the engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve platform components tooling automation frameworks and golden paths.
- Lead cross-team initiatives to improve reliability performance security and operational excellence.
- Collaboratively define and maintain standards for CI/CD IaC observability platform governance and developer workflows.
- Mentor engineers lead technical design reviews and elevate engineering practices.
- Diagnose complex distributed systems issues and lead incident resolution and post-incident analysis.
- Drive automation of deployment workflows resilience patterns failure recovery mechanisms and lifecycle management.
- Partner with SRE infrastructure security and product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business priorities.
- Represent Developer Platforms in technical forums and influence platform adoption.
Qualifications
To land this role you will need:
- 7 years of platform SRE cloud or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Deep experience with distributed systems Kubernetes cloud-native patterns and automation.
- Strong expertise in CI/CD systems IaC (Terraform ARM/Bicep CloudFormation) and platform reliability.
- Significant experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
- Excellent communication architectural thinking and cross-functional leadership.
What makes you stand out:
- Experience driving platform modernization or large-scale migrations.
- Ability to define long-term platform strategy and architectural direction.
- Passion for developer experience internal platforms and accelerating engineering velocity.
- Demonstrated impact in scaling infrastructure improving reliability and maturing engineering ecosystems.
Education / Certification Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced cloud or platform engineering certifications preferred.
Working Environment
- Hybrid four days in the office.
- Minimal travel.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
We are an institutional-grade financial services franchise that provides global market access, clearing and execution, trading platforms and more.