Senior Platform Engineer

The role

You will build and integrate AI product capabilities that process data from external sources in real time. You will route streaming responses and language model requests while monitoring latency, costs, and error rates.

What you will do

• Build and integrate AI product capabilities that process data from external sources and multiple systems in real time
• Route streaming responses and language model requests across providers, including fallback and cost-management logic
• Monitor latency, costs, and error rates to prevent reliability or performance issues
• Make architectural decisions to improve system quality
• Instrument services, investigate production issues, and implement fixes

Required qualifications

• At least 3 years of backend engineering experience
• Production TypeScript application development
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands-on application coding
• Strong system design skills
• Ability to reason about performance, latency, and cost trade-offs
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, APIs, queues, and caching
• Experience improving platform reliability and performance under production load
• Experience with observability, instrumentation, and root-cause analysis
• Experience with streaming responses or routing language model requests across providers, including fallback and cost logic

Nice to have

• CI/CD
• Safe deployment practices
• Secure permissions
• Structured incident follow-up
• Comfort contributing to frontend code

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is a product engineering team building a business-focused AI platform.