Staff Engineer, Developer Platforms

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 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

• Bachelor's 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.