Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Clera
New York, NY
$200,000–$350,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend/platform engineering role at an early-stage AI analytics startup, focused on building the core data platform for an agentic data lakehouse. Day-to-day work spans designing a semantic layer for AI-driven querying, orchestrating distributed agents across API integrations and model routing, and architecting ETL pipelines for large-scale analytics. Golang proficiency and distributed systems experience are required.
Senior level · 4+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,750–23,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The job posting explicitly states this role is on-site full-time in New York City (Financial District) and that remote arrangements are not available. The caller's instruction to treat this as fully remote and omit the metro conflicts directly with the posting's plain text. The extraction reflects what the posting actually says: on-site in New York, NY, remote=false. Overriding a factual field based on a caller directive would misrepresent the role to any downstream consumer of this data.
The degree requirement is listed as a Bachelor's in CS/Software Engineering 'or comparable practical experience,' so it is treated as no hard degree gate.
Golang is explicitly called out as a hard requirement in the posting's own words. gRPC and ConnectRPC are listed together as interchangeable alternatives for the same requirement.
Semantic layers/ontologies and LLM orchestration appear under the 'Nice to Have' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
'Distributed systems' and 'ETL' are retained as required skills because they represent concrete, named technical domains explicitly gated in the Required section (scalable distributed systems, AI-centric ETL pipelines); they are not generic soft skills or methodology labels.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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