Clera

Staff Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$250k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate core infrastructure including APIs, LLM-powered workflows, web scraping systems, and large-scale knowledge graph architecture.
  • Architect and maintain production systems capable of handling millions of API requests with strong performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
  • Own projects end to end from ambiguous problem definition through deployment and iteration.
  • Collaborate with senior technical leadership on architecture and roadmap decisions.
  • Contribute to developer documentation, technical tutorials, internal tooling, and experimental builds.

Requirements

  • 10 or more years of professional software engineering experience with a strong record of shipping production code at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with Linux servers in production environments.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping.
  • Experience designing or operating APIs, distributed systems, AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure, or high-volume data pipelines.
  • Ability to own ambiguous projects from architecture through deployment and iteration.
  • Completed degree from a well-regarded university in a relevant field.
  • Currently based in San Francisco and comfortable working in person.
  • Background at a high-growth technology company or early-stage startup is a strong plus.
  • Previous founder or early-stage engineering experience is a plus.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $250,000 to $300,000 USD annually plus expected equity.
  • On-site, in-person work in San Francisco, California.
  • No visa sponsorship is available.
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