Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Posted:
8/16/2026, 3:56:17 AM

Location(s):
New York, New York, United States ⋅ New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

Pay:
$200k–$350k/yr

About the Role

We're a fast-growing, well-funded AI-native analytics company (Series A/B equivalent) building an agentic data lakehouse that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data. Our platform helps organizations in highly regulated industries — including financial services and healthcare — query and reason over complex data using natural language, without heavy schema migrations or data movement.

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.

What You'll Do

  • Agentic Semantic Layer: Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly and the guardrails to prove their results — making AI-generated analytics something teams can actually stake decisions on.

  • Distributed Agent Orchestration: 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.

  • Agentic Data Engineering: Architect AI-centric ETL pipelines for data lakehouses that make large-scale analytics possible for organizations with little to no dedicated data engineering resources.

What We're Looking For

Required:

  • 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

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with data visualization tools or big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, or similar)

  • Background at a VC-backed startup

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $200,000 – $350,000 USD annually (depending on experience)

  • Equity participation

  • Visa sponsorship is available

Location

This role is on-site in New York City, NY. Candidates must be willing and able to work in-office full-time. Fully remote arrangements are not available for this position.

Clera

Website: https://www.getclera.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 1-10

Year Founded: 2025

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Pre-Seed

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