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title: "Senior Backend Engineer"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-senior-backend-engineer-0ef6e50f-74fd-4ce8-ab8f-1e22eeacc037"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/8b6a31ef-c1b7-45d9-bfdc-298a051e8fa4"
workplace: remote
location: "Palo Alto"
remote_scope: "Palo Alto"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: senior
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["llm", "python"]
date_posted: 2026-09-16T15:02:21.334Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-16T15:20:27.594Z
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# Senior Backend Engineer

**Clera** · Palo Alto

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/8b6a31ef-c1b7-45d9-bfdc-298a051e8fa4

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a high-impact individual contributor role on the backend engineering team of an early-stage AI-native platform for cloud architecture planning. You will design and build the intelligent systems that power observability, architecture modeling, and AI-driven recommendation engines, sitting at the intersection of distributed systems, data pipelines, and ML infrastructure.

##### What You'll Do

- Design and build scalable backend systems powering observability, architecture modeling, and recommendation engines using data pipelines, microservices, and system modeling techniques.

- Collaborate with AI engineers to embed LLM-based and multi-agent intelligence within the platform, enabling rich recommendations and generative planning capabilities.

- Contribute to core architecture capabilities by identifying patterns, building services that reflect architecture decisions, and ensuring actionable visibility for users.

- Implement monitoring, fault-tolerant workflows, and observability layers for mission-critical services.

- Work cross-functionally with product managers, AI researchers, and technical leadership to translate requirements into robust platform capabilities.

- Share learnings and mentor teammates to strengthen overall engineering culture.

##### What We're Looking For

- 4+ years of backend engineering experience at high-growth startups or technology companies, building production-grade systems.

- Proven track record designing scalable, distributed systems and microservices architectures in production environments.

- Expertise in Go or Python with a commitment to clean, idiomatic, maintainable code.

- Experience building data pipelines, observability systems, and monitoring infrastructure for production services.

- Hands-on experience with DevOps tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native technologies.

- Experience integrating or working with LLM-based systems, AI workflows, or multi-agent architectures.

- Track record of building 0-to-1 systems or products from inception in startup or early-stage environments.

- Demonstrated skill in performance tuning, debugging complex systems, and technical architecture design.

- Practical experience with fault-tolerant workflow design and resilience patterns in mission-critical services.

- Comfort and proficiency with AI-assisted development tools.

- Strong computer science fundamentals; graduate-level education is a plus.

- Domain experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure optimization, or technology stack modernization is a bonus.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: **$160,000 to $200,000 USD** annually, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

##### Location

Fully remote.

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