Senior Platform Software Engineer

Clera; United States; Remote; USD 101,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock options

Job summary

Clera is seeking a seasoned Platform Engineer to own core cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and reliability for a seed-stage software company building referral and partner growth tools. You will architect and operate AWS infrastructure, implement CI/CD pipelines, and guide architectural decisions with product teams.

Ideal candidates bring 5–10+ years of production infra experience, deep AWS expertise, and strong IaC skills with Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years owning production infrastructure.
• Strong AWS expertise and IaC with Terraform.
• Knowledge of distributed systems concepts (ordering, idempotency, retries).
• Production PostgreSQL experience with migrations and backups.
• Familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js and NestJS.
• Experience with high-traffic, highly available systems.
• Comfort with AI coding tools and strong problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate AWS infrastructure across compute, messaging, storage, networking, and observability.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines from commit to production.
• Manage production PostgreSQL including migrations and backups.
• Balance delivery speed with foundational system quality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape architecture and direction.
• Explore AI-assisted development tools and integrate where useful.
• Investigate distributed systems issues and deliver reliable solutions.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Terraform IaC

Distributed Systems

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

Node.js

AI tooling

High availability

Tools

AWS

Terraform

NestJS

PostgreSQL tooling

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About the Role

Join the platform engineering team at a seed-stage software company building referral and partner growth tools for businesses. You will own core cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and reliability, helping the team deliver product changes safely and efficiently.

What You'll Do

• Architect, deploy, and operate AWS infrastructure across compute, messaging, storage, networking, and observability.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support automated deployments from commit to production.

• Manage production PostgreSQL, including configuration, performance tuning, migrations, and backup strategies.

• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between delivery speed and foundational system quality.

• Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to shape architecture and technical direction.

• Explore AI-assisted development tools and incorporate them into build and deployment workflows where useful.

• Investigate complex distributed systems issues and deliver reliable solutions.

What We're Looking For

• Typically 5 to 10+ years of relevant experience, including hands-on ownership of production infrastructure.

• Deep AWS expertise and strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or a similar tool.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including ordering, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, and partial failure recovery.

• Production PostgreSQL experience with connection pooling, migrations, performance optimization, and backup and restore.

• Ability to read and understand TypeScript and Node.js codebases, with familiarity with NestJS.

• Experience operating high-traffic, highly available systems and strong independent debugging skills.

• Comfort using AI coding tools while maintaining strong technical judgment and problem-solving skills.

• Collaborative communication style and a genuine interest in the product and its users.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary and employee stock options are offered. A specific salary range was not provided. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Remote within Europe, with candidates located within three hours of Central European Time.