Clera

Staff Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$250k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate core infrastructure for people-data and agent platforms.
  • Develop APIs, LLM-powered workflows, scraping systems, and large-scale knowledge-graph architecture.
  • Architect and maintain production systems handling millions of API requests with strong performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
  • Own projects from ambiguous problem definition through deployment and iteration with minimal oversight.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership on technical decisions, roadmap priorities, and foundational architecture.
  • Create developer documentation, technical tutorials, internal tooling, and experimental builds for APIs.

Requirements

  • 10 or more years of professional software engineering experience shipping production code at scale.
  • Hands-on production experience with Linux servers.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping.
  • Experience designing or operating APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure using AWS or GCP, or high-volume data pipelines.
  • Ability to take ambiguous projects from architecture through deployment and iteration with minimal oversight.
  • Degree in computer science or a closely related field from a well-regarded university.
  • Experience at a high-growth technology company or early-stage startup.
  • Previous founding experience is a plus.
  • Based in San Francisco and comfortable working on-site.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $250,000 to $300,000 USD annually plus equity.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
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