Platform Engineer - Remote, Scale AI Infra & Pipelines

Clera Labs, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 42,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Clera Labs, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and maintain the core infrastructure of an AI-driven data platform. You will work with the founding team to improve reliability, performance, and product velocity.

You will design scalable systems, optimize pipelines, and manage cloud-based infrastructure with IaC. Strong coding skills and experience with containers, CI/CD, and observability are required for this role.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Platform/SRE/DevOps/Backend focusing on production infrastructure or core services.
• Experience shipping/maintaining production systems at scale and resolving incidents.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes or similar container runtimes.
• IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible) and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong backend fundamentals in Python/Go/Node/Java and with databases & APIs.
• Familiar with monitoring/observability tools and message queues or event streaming.
• Comfortable in early-stage environments with evolving priorities and cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend systems and APIs that support core product workflows.
• Partner with founders and cross-functional teams to identify platform bottlenecks and deliver improvements.
• Maintain and optimize infrastructure, databases, and deployment pipelines.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that guide the platform's long-term direction.
• Investigate production issues and improve monitoring and observability.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code, containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD systems.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

APIs

Python

Go

Node.js

Java

Databases

Monitoring

Observability

Messaging queues

Job description

Clera Labs, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and maintain the core infrastructure of an AI-driven data platform. You will work with the founding team to improve reliability, performance, and product velocity.

You will design scalable systems, optimize pipelines, and manage cloud-based infrastructure with IaC. Strong coding skills and experience with containers, CI/CD, and observability are required for this role.