# Senior Platform Software Engineer at Clera

Senior Platform Software Engineer at Clera in remote. Remote, full-time. Posted October 27, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: remote
- Workplace: Remote
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 5+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/53763b58-e70a-4532-96ce-3679bfe7bb50/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/senior-platform-software-engineer-clera-06078s

## Requirements

- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including operating high-traffic, high-availability systems at scale.
- Deep, hands-on experience running production infrastructure on AWS and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform or a similar tool.
- Production PostgreSQL expertise, including connection pooling, migrations, performance optimization, and backup and restore.
- Experience building or maintaining production CI/CD pipelines and working with distributed-systems concepts such as ordering guarantees, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, and partial-failure recovery.
- Ability to read and understand TypeScript and Node.js application code, including NestJS codebases.
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, such as agentic coding tools, multi-agent setups, or MCP servers, alongside the independent technical judgment to debug and reason about architecture.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.

## Description

### About the Role

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS company as a Senior Platform Software Engineer. You will own cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and reliability for a high-traffic platform, helping the team make sound architecture decisions and ship with confidence.

### What You'll Do

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

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate deployments from commit through production.

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

- Balance delivery speed with investment in foundational system quality.

- Work with stakeholders and product teams to shape architecture and technical direction.

- Explore AI-assisted development tools and integrate them into build and deployment workflows.

- Diagnose complex distributed-systems issues and deliver pragmatic solutions for high-availability services.

### What We're Looking For

- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including operating high-traffic, high-availability systems at scale.

- Deep, hands-on experience running production infrastructure on AWS and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform or a similar tool.

- Production PostgreSQL expertise, including connection pooling, migrations, performance optimization, and backup and restore.

- Experience building or maintaining production CI/CD pipelines and working with distributed-systems concepts such as ordering guarantees, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, and partial-failure recovery.

- Ability to read and understand TypeScript and Node.js application code, including NestJS codebases.

- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, such as agentic coding tools, multi-agent setups, or MCP servers, alongside the independent technical judgment to debug and reason about architecture.

- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.

### Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary and employee stock options. Visa sponsorship is not available.

### Location

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