Job Overview
Location
New York
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
August 18, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you'll join the platform team shaping the data foundation that powers AI-driven analytics at scale.
- • This is a zero-to-one, high-ownership role at a ~40-person company with strong investor backing and notable enterprise customers.
- • 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.
- • You'll design and implement orchestration systems for agents that interact with the real world, including 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 possible for organizations with little to no dedicated data engineering resources.
🎯 Requirements
- • 4+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems
- • Strong proficiency in Golang, with the ability to contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend as needed
- • Hands-on experience with gRPC/ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in a distributed data platform environment
- • Experience designing or implementing ETL pipelines, data modeling, or schema design for data platforms
- • Experience building orchestration systems for distributed agents (API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth, model routing, scheduling, or token optimization)
- • Prior experience at an early-stage startup, ideally building products from zero to one
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable professional experience
- • Strong CS fundamentals
🏖️ Benefits
- • Salary: $200,000 – $350,000 USD annually (depending on experience)
- • Equity participation
- • Visa sponsorship is available
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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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