Senior Platform Software Engineer

Clera
remote
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and production PostgreSQL systems.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5 to 10+ years of production infrastructure ownership and AWS experience
    — “Typically 5 to 10+ years of relevant experience, including hands-on ownership of production infrastructure.”
  • Individuals who have operated high-traffic systems and debugged complex issues independently
    — “Experience operating high-traffic, highly available systems and strong independent debugging skills.”
  • Professionals comfortable with AI coding tools and pragmatic system design decisions
    — “Comfort using AI coding tools while maintaining strong technical judgment and problem-solving skills.”

Things to consider

  • No visa sponsorship available, which may limit eligibility for non-EU candidates
    — “Remote within Europe, with candidates located within three hours of Central European Time.”
  • The role may require long-term commitment to a growing seed-stage company
    — “Competitive salary and employee stock options are offered.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with Terraform and AWS in your resume and interview stories
    — “Deep AWS expertise and strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or a similar tool.”
  • Demonstrate your ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and quality
    — “Make pragmatic tradeoffs between delivery speed and foundational system quality.”
  • Showcase your PostgreSQL skills with examples of performance tuning and backup strategies
    — “Manage production PostgreSQL, including configuration, performance tuning, migrations, and backup strategies.”
  • Emphasize your experience with distributed systems concepts in your technical interviews
    — “Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including ordering, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, and partial failure recovery.”
  • Demonstrate familiarity with TypeScript and NestJS when discussing codebases
    — “Ability to read and understand TypeScript and Node.js codebases, with familiarity with NestJS.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Individual

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What success looks like

  • Building and maintaining reliable cloud infrastructure
  • Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Managing production PostgreSQL
Typical background
Platform EngineerDevOps EngineerBackend Developer

Skills & requirements

Required

AWSTerraformDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLTypeScriptNode.jsNestJSCI/CDObservabilityDebugging

Preferred

Ai-assisted Development Tools

Stack & domain

AWSInfrastructure As CodeTerraformDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLCi/cd PipelinesTypeScriptNode.jsNestJSHigh Traffic SystemsAi-assisted Development ToolsCollaborationCommunicationProblem SolvingDecision MakingCloud InfrastructureDeployment SystemsReliabilityProduct Delivery

About the role

Original posting from Clera via Ashby

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join the platform engineering team at a seed-stage software company building referral and partner growth tools for businesses. You will own core cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and reliability, helping the team deliver product changes safely and efficiently.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Architect, deploy, and operate AWS infrastructure across compute, messaging, storage, networking, and observability.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support automated deployments from commit to production.
  • Manage production PostgreSQL, including configuration, performance tuning, migrations, and backup strategies.
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs between delivery speed and foundational system quality.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to shape architecture and technical direction.
  • Explore AI-assisted development tools and incorporate them into build and deployment workflows where useful.
  • Investigate complex distributed systems issues and deliver reliable solutions.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Typically 5 to 10+ years of relevant experience, including hands-on ownership of production infrastructure.
  • Deep AWS expertise and strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or a similar tool.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including ordering, idempotency, retries, at-least-once delivery, and partial failure recovery.
  • Production PostgreSQL experience with connection pooling, migrations, performance optimization, and backup and restore.
  • Ability to read and understand TypeScript and Node.js codebases, with familiarity with NestJS.
  • Experience operating high-traffic, highly available systems and strong independent debugging skills.
  • Comfort using AI coding tools while maintaining strong technical judgment and problem-solving skills.
  • Collaborative communication style and a genuine interest in the product and its users.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Competitive salary and employee stock options are offered. A specific salary range was not provided. Visa sponsorship is not available.

LOCATION

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

Source: Clera careers (Ashby)

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