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# Senior Software Engineer, Platform

- **Company:** CLERA, LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $350,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Visualization, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Meta-Data Management, OAuth, Software Engineering, Enterprise Data Management, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Rate Limiting, Data Layers, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Machine Learning Operations, Front End Software Development, Data Lakehouse, Api Management, Golang
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=742082a73cdbf103

## About the Role

* 4+ years of hands-on experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems.
 * Proficiency in Golang - this is a hard requirement.
 * Experience with gRPC / ConnectRPC, Trino, Kubernetes, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL in a distributed data platform environment.
 * Strong CS fundamentals; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable practical experience.
 * Background at early-stage, VC-backed startups or demonstrated experience building products from zero to one.
 * Experience with data visualization tools, data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies.

Nice to Have

 * Familiarity with semantic layers, ontologies, or metadata management in enterprise data environments.
 * Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or LLM orchestration patterns.
 * Comfort owning work across infrastructure, services, or frontend as needed.

## Description

Join the platform team at a well-funded, early-stage AI data analytics startup building an agentic data lakehouse that delivers trustworthy answers from messy enterprise data at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you'll shape the data foundation that powers AI-driven analytics - no heavy schema migrations or data movement required. This is a high-ownership, zero-to-one role on a small, high-caliber team., * Distributed Agent Orchestration: Design and implement orchestration systems for agents interacting with the broader world - covering 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 accessible to organizations with minimal data engineering resources.
 * Contribute across infrastructure, services, or frontend as the team and product evolve.


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