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title: "Staff Engineer"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-staff-engineer-2bc4d56c-d032-4610-b792-e46c0892e07b"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/74a542ed-4b5c-40ea-9539-43ec646203b7"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: staff
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "gcp", "linux", "llm"]
date_posted: 2026-09-15T17:25:16.976Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T17:50:31.424Z
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# Staff Engineer

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/74a542ed-4b5c-40ea-9539-43ec646203b7

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a high-ownership Staff Engineer role at a seed-stage AI and people-data company in San Francisco. You will be a foundational technical contributor, shaping core infrastructure and platform architecture at a critical early stage. The work directly influences the company's long-term technical direction.

##### What You'll Do

- Design, build, and operate core infrastructure for a people-data and agent platform, including APIs, LLM-powered workflows, scraping systems, and large-scale knowledge graph architecture.

- Architect and maintain production-grade systems capable of handling millions of API requests, with a focus on performance, cost efficiency, and reliability across cloud and Linux server environments.

- Own projects end-to-end, from ambiguous problem definition through deployment and iteration, shipping quickly without compromising system integrity.

- Collaborate directly with senior leadership on technical decisions, roadmap priorities, and foundational architectural choices.

- Contribute broadly across the stack, including developer documentation, technical tutorials, internal tooling, and experimental builds that showcase and stress-test APIs.

##### What We're Looking For

- 10 or more years of professional software engineering experience shipping code to production at scale.

- Hands-on experience with Linux servers in a production environment.

- Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping.

- Experience designing or operating APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), or high-volume data pipelines.

- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous projects from architecture through deployment and iteration with minimal oversight.

- A degree in computer science or a closely related field from a well-regarded university.

- Experience at a high-growth tech company or early-stage startup; previous founding experience is a plus.

- Based in San Francisco and comfortable working on-site.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary in the range of **$250,000 to $300,000 USD annually**, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

##### Location

On-site in **San Francisco, CA, United States**.

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