Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Clera•San Francisco, CA

1d•$200,000 - $350,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join a well-funded AI/ML data analytics startup building an agentic data lakehouse that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data. As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you'll be a core member of the platform team shaping the data foundation that enables AI-driven analytics at scale — no heavy schema migrations or data movement required. This is a high-impact, zero-to-one role at an early-stage company backed by top-tier investors.

Requirements

Proficiency in Golang — this is a dealbreaker requirement.
4+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems.
Hands-on experience with gRPC/ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in a distributed data platform environment.
Experience with data visualization tools, data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies.
Proven track record at early-stage startups or building products from zero to one.
Strong CS fundamentals; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment and owning problems end to end.

Responsibilities

Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly and the guardrails to prove results — making AI-generated queries something teams can actually stake decisions on.
Design and implement orchestration systems for agents that interact with the world, including API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth passthrough, model routers, scheduling, and token optimization.
Architect AI-centric ETL pipelines for data lakehouses, enabling large-scale analytics for organizations with minimal data engineering resources.
Contribute across infrastructure, services, and frontend as the team and product evolve.