# Backend / Systems Engineer, Agent Infrastructure at Clera

Backend / Systems Engineer, Agent Infrastructure at Clera in Berlin. On-site, full-time. Posted October 31, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: Berlin
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/e2e13b69-ad25-4ee4-8dd9-0b8e3a7b7bed/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/backend-systems-engineer-agent-infrastructure-clera-58zwc5

## Requirements

- At least 3 years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production services.
- Practical experience with Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, and willingness to work across both.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database, including data modeling and transactions.
- Experience with background jobs, queues, or event-driven processing, including failure handling and data consistency.
- Experience building reliable asynchronous workflows and resolving production problems.
- Experience with workflow engines, multi-tenant applications, authorization, FastAPI, or agent tooling is helpful. Prior LLM experience is not required.

## Description

### About the Role

Build backend systems and infrastructure that support reliable agent execution at a SaaS company. Working with the technical leadership and AI engineering team, you will own foundational systems for persistent state, safe execution, permissions, and recovery across people, agents, and external services.

### What You'll Do

- Build backend services and data models to track operational work, ownership, and outcomes over time.

- Develop asynchronous workflows with reliable retries, timeouts, external-event handling, and recovery from interrupted execution.

- Create shared APIs and tool-execution interfaces with authorization and customer-data isolation.

- Improve how operational knowledge is stored, versioned, and served.

- Strengthen testing and observability while evolving the platform with the engineering team.

- Investigate production issues, design clear interfaces, and deliver maintainable solutions.

### What We're Looking For

- At least 3 years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production services.

- Practical experience with Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, and willingness to work across both.

- Experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database, including data modeling and transactions.

- Experience with background jobs, queues, or event-driven processing, including failure handling and data consistency.

- Experience building reliable asynchronous workflows and resolving production problems.

- Experience with workflow engines, multi-tenant applications, authorization, FastAPI, or agent tooling is helpful. Prior LLM experience is not required.

### Compensation & Benefits

Salary: €80,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

### Location

On-site in Berlin, Germany.