Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Clera

Job Overview

Location

New York

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Join the platform team at a well-funded, early-stage AI data analytics startup building an agentic data lakehouse that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data at scale.
• As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you'll shape the data foundation that powers AI-driven analytics — no heavy schema migrations or data movement required.
• This is a high-ownership, zero-to-one role on a small, high-caliber team.
• You'll be responsible for building the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly and the guardrails to prove their results — raising the bar for trustworthy, AI-generated analytics.
• You'll design and implement orchestration systems for agents interacting with the broader world — covering API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth passthrough, model routing, scheduling, and token optimization.
• You'll architect AI-centric ETL pipelines for data lakehouses that make large-scale analytics accessible to organizations with minimal data engineering resources.
• You'll contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend as the team and product evolve.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Golang — this is a hard requirement.
• Experience with gRPC / ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in a distributed data platform environment.
• Strong CS fundamentals; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable practical experience.
• Background at early-stage, VC-backed startups or demonstrated experience building products from zero to one.
• Experience with data visualization tools, data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies.

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary: $200,000 – $350,000 USD annually.
• Visa sponsorship is available.

Skills & Technologies

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

gRPC

OAuth

Senior

Remote

$200k-350k

Degree Required

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About Clera

Clera, Inc. operates as an AI Talent Agent, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance and streamline various aspects of the talent acquisition and management process. The company's core offering appears to center on an AI-powered platform designed to connect skilled individuals with suitable opportunities or to assist organizations in efficiently sourcing and evaluating candidates. While comprehensive details regarding specific features, target industries, or the scale of its operations are not yet publicly available, the current online presence indicates that Clera's services are actively being prepared for launch. This suggests an upcoming introduction of innovative AI solutions aimed at optimizing the ecosystem where talent meets demand.

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