AI Engineer - Data Platform

Clera

$125K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems design principles
  • Proven performance engineering skills with high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or Splunk is a plus
  • Experience with hybrid or multi-environment infrastructure
  • Interest or experience in AI/ML workload support
  • Background in observability, incident management, or data infrastructure companies is valued

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable infrastructure for AI-driven workflows
  • Work on foundational components to ensure efficient resource use and high performance
  • Profile and optimize backend systems to enhance throughput and reduce latency
  • Build and maintain the observability stack for AI agents
  • Support cloud and on-premises architecture for diverse deployment models
  • Collaborate with engineers to create resilient infrastructure for real-time diagnostics

Benefits

  • On-site role located in New York, NY
  • Experience working in a dynamic, cross-functional team environment
  • Opportunity to build impactful observability solutions in an AI context
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technology in AI and infrastructure
  • Possibility of professional growth within a specialized field of AI-driven observability
Full Job Description
About the Role

As an AI Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll design, build, and maintain the backend systems that power an AI-driven observability platform. This hands-on role blends distributed systems engineering, low-level system design, performance optimization, observability, and AI integration - across both cloud and on-premises deployments.
What You'll Do
  • Architecture & Implementation: Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, resilient infrastructure systems powering AI-driven root cause analysis and observability workflows, including on-premises deployment environments.
  • Low-Level System Design: Work on the foundational building blocks of the infrastructure, ensuring efficient resource utilization and high performance at scale.
  • Performance Optimization: Profile and tune backend systems to improve throughput, reduce latency, and eliminate bottlenecks across the stack.
  • Observability Systems: Build and maintain the internal observability stack - logs, metrics, and traces - used by AI agents to understand and act on production issues.
  • Hybrid Infrastructure: Support cloud and on-premises architecture to serve both SaaS and enterprise customer deployment models.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineers across the company to deliver resilient infrastructure that enables AI agents to diagnose and remediate production incidents in real time.
What We're Looking For
  • Experience: 2-5 years of hands-on backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
  • Distributed Systems: Strong understanding of distributed systems design principles and trade-offs.
  • Performance Engineering: Proven experience profiling and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency systems.
  • Observability: Familiarity with observability tooling and concepts (logs, metrics, traces); experience with platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, or similar is a plus.
  • Cloud & On-Prem: Experience with hybrid or multi-environment infrastructure (cloud + on-premises).
  • AI/ML Integration: Interest in or experience building systems that support AI/ML workloads at scale.
  • Background: Prior experience at observability, incident management, or data infrastructure companies is highly valued.

Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Location

This is a fully on-site role based in New York, NY. Remote work is not available for this position.

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