Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Clera

$200K — $350K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years as a backend or platform engineer in scalable distributed systems.
  • Proficient in Golang for infrastructure and services development.
  • Hands-on with gRPC/ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in data platforms.
  • Experience building orchestration systems for distributed agents with API integrations and scheduling.
  • Skilled in ETL pipeline design, data modeling, or schema design for data platforms.
  • Background in early-stage startups or developing products from scratch.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals; Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Build an agentic semantic layer to provide AI agents context for querying enterprise data effectively.
  • Design and implement orchestration systems for real-world agent interactions.
  • Architect AI-centric ETL pipelines to support large-scale analytics with minimal data engineering resources.
  • Establish guardrails to validate and prove AI-generated results for organizational decision-making.
  • Enable API integrations, rate limiting, and model routing for efficient agent operations.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available.
  • Opportunity to work in a fast-growing venture-backed startup.
  • High-ownership role influencing the architecture of AI analytics infrastructure.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Join a fast-growing, venture-backed AI data analytics company 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 powers AI-driven analytics at scale - no heavy schema migrations or data movement required.

This is an early-stage, high-ownership role for a backend or platform engineer who thrives in a zero-to-one environment and wants to help define the architecture of next-generation AI analytics infrastructure.
What You'll Do
  • Agentic Semantic Layer: Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly, along with the guardrails to validate and prove results - making AI-generated analysis something organizations can genuinely 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, enabling large-scale analytics for organizations with minimal 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.
  • 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 building orchestration systems for distributed agents - covering API integrations, rate limiting, OAuth, model routing, scheduling, or token optimization.
  • Experience designing or implementing ETL pipelines, data modeling, or schema design for data platforms.
  • Experience at early-stage startups or building products from zero to one.
  • Strong CS fundamentals; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable professional experience.

Nice to Have:
  • Experience with data visualization tools or big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, or similar).
  • Background at VC-backed early-stage startups.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary: $200,000 - $350,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
Location

This role is on-site in New York City, NY. Candidates must be willing and able to work from the NYC office. Fully remote candidates are not a fit for this position.

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