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Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

CompanyCleric
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$160000 – $220000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • 6+ years of production software engineering experience
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with focus on simplicity and maintainability
  • Track record of working with data scientists to build high-scale production services
  • Deep experience with observability tools and practices (Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS) and containerization
  • Extensive experience in Python and at least one high performance language like Java, Scala, Go, or Rust
  • You’ve worn the pager and fixed 2AM outages
  • You challenge assumptions and propose pragmatic solutions
  • Curiosity and drive to learn new technologies

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale our agent platform, evaluation systems, and the web applications where users manage their Cleric deployment
  • Design agent telemetry pipelines that power our simulation environments and evaluations
  • Implement monitoring and observability systems to observe platform and agent performance
  • Create testing frameworks and development patterns to maintain engineering quality
  • Build APIs, tools, and libraries that help our team ship quickly and reliably
  • Establish engineering best practices and mentor other engineers as we grow

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with LLM-based systems
  • Hands-on with ML / LLM platform tooling (feature stores, model serving, eval)
  • Background in building developer platforms
  • Previous startup experience