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Clera
Full time
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USA
09/20/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end product loop from failure detection and ingestion through patch generation, verification, and customer delivery.
Build reproduction logic, guardrails, and checks that prevent unsafe pull requests from reaching customer repositories.
Work directly with customers by reviewing traces, participating in communication channels, and identifying failures before escalation.
Make architectural decisions involving schema design, service boundaries, and speed-versus-correctness tradeoffs.
Define engineering culture and standards for testing, on-call practices, and release criteria.
Work across detection quality, high-volume ingestion pipelines, and the customer-facing review UI.
Operate and debug production systems using observability and monitoring practices.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience shipping production software with a track record of working across specialties.
Strong TypeScript proficiency across frontend and core services.
Experience working with data at volume and making cost-aware engineering decisions.
Experience building and operating AI agents in production environments.
Experience designing and optimizing high-volume data pipelines.
Strong product sense and the ability to turn ambiguous problems into well-considered solutions independently.
Experience with observability, monitoring, and production debugging.
Ability to make long-term architectural decisions in an early-stage, small-team environment.
Experience with pull request review automation or code quality tooling is a bonus.

Benefits

Salary range of $150,000 to $200,000 USD annually.
On-site in San Francisco, California, six days per week.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Salary: $150k - $200k/yr

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