Staff Platform Engineer
Clarify
Posted: November 21, 2025
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About the role
You'll join our engineering team as a Staff Platform Engineer. You will work closely with our founders on zero-to-one experiences, make foundational technical design decisions, and own a large engineering scope. We're looking for someone who loves delivering great customer experiences and has a passion for building scalable platforms.
What you’ll do
• Design and develop high-quality product software, drive the architectural decision, and full product delivery life cycle for new platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver product features on time.
• Work with the team to build data integrations with various tools in the ecosystem.
• Partner with our founders on the strategy of our customer-facing experiences.
• Write technical documentation and contribute to internal processes.
• Have high ownership over technical decisions and direction.
• Help educate and guide all future engineers in our technology stack.
• Establish standards and best practices for engineering.
Your background
• 8+ years of experience building scalable platforms.
• Good understanding of database internals and experience in schema design.
• Experience working on the AWS platform.
• Excitement for integrating the latest LLMs into products.
• Hands-on experience with data pipeline technologies: Spark, Flink, etc.
• Proficient with our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Postgres.
• Pragmatic problem solver with a focus on delivering impact.
• Demonstrated personal and professional maturity.
• Experience taking software from ideation to production.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Startup experience or a desire to build your own company one day.