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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-784f4e22-438c-445f-a826-4db11c68021e"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/d014bb5f-ac75-43fa-90d5-552c34a4ebf6"
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: 2026-09-23T17:11:02.085Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-23T17:12:22.320Z
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# Senior Backend Engineer

**Clera** · Palo Alto

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/d014bb5f-ac75-43fa-90d5-552c34a4ebf6

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a high-impact individual contributor role on the engineering team of an early-stage AI/ML platform company focused on cloud-native architecture intelligence. You will design and build the intelligent backend 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 features.

- Build services that identify architecture patterns and deliver actionable visibility to 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 contribute to a strong, collaborative engineering culture.

##### What We're Looking For

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

- Proven track record building scalable, distributed systems and microservices architectures, ideally in 0-to-1 product environments.

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

- Hands-on experience with data pipelines, observability systems, and monitoring infrastructure for production services.

- Deep knowledge of DevOps tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native technologies.

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

- Strong aptitude for performance tuning, debugging complex systems, and technical architecture design.

- Prior startup experience and comfort operating with autonomy and ownership in fast-moving environments.

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

- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (such as Cursor or similar).

- Strong Computer Science fundamentals; graduate-level education is a plus.

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

##### Compensation & Benefits

- Salary: $160,000 to $200,000 per year (USD)

- Visa sponsorship: Not available

##### Location

Fully remote, open to candidates based in the United States.

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