Senior Software Engineer, Platform

CLERA, LLC
New York, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 350K

Job location

New York, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Engineering
ETL
Data Visualization
Data Warehousing
Distributed Data Store
Distributed Systems
PostgreSQL
OAuth
Software Engineering
Business Intelligence Development Studio
Multi-Agent Systems
Backend
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Data Analytics
Front End Software Development
Api Management
Go

Job description

Join the platform team at a well-funded AI/ML data analytics startup building an agentic data lakehouse that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data. You'll help shape the data foundation that enables AI-driven analytics at scale - without heavy schema migrations or data movement. This is a high-impact, zero-to-one engineering role at an early-stage company backed by top-tier investors., * Agentic Semantic Layer: Build the system that gives AI agents the context to query enterprise data correctly and the guardrails to prove their results - turning AI-generated queries into something teams can actually rely on.

  • Distributed Agent Orchestration: Design and implement orchestration systems for distributed agents, 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 data engineering resources.
  • Contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend as needed in a small, fast-moving team.

Requirements

Do you have experience in gRPC?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 4+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems.

  • Proficiency in Golang (dealbreaker).
  • Experience with gRPC/ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in a distributed data platform environment.
  • Experience at early-stage startups or building products from zero to one (VC-backed preferred).
  • Strong CS fundamentals; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
  • Experience with data visualization tools, data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies.

Nice to Have:

  • Ability to contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend beyond core backend work.
  • Background at companies working on data warehousing, BI tooling, or AI/ML analytics platforms., This role is on-site in New York City, NY. Candidates must be willing and able to work from the NYC office full-time.

Benefits & conditions

$200,000 - $350,000 a year - Full-time

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