# Founding Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: New York - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $170K – $220K - Posted: August 27, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage data infrastructure company, working directly with the CTO to build core systems for extracting, analyzing, and visualizing web data at scale. You'll own significant pieces of the product — from autonomous agents to distributed backend services — powering enterprise customers who depend on structured, real-world web data every day. ### What You'll Do * Build autonomous agents that solve complex, real-world information extraction problems across diverse and unpredictable web environments. * Design and iterate on a full-stack, self-serve application that makes sophisticated workflows intuitive for non-technical users. * Maintain and scale backend architecture to reliably process thousands of requests per second and tens of millions of rows of data daily. * Contribute broadly across the stack — infrastructure as code, ML pipelines, website updates, and whatever else keeps the team moving fast. ### What We're Looking For * 5+ years of experience shipping production software, or equivalent demonstrated skill in a 0→1 environment. * Proven track record launching meaningful products on small, early-stage teams with rapid iteration cycles. * Hands-on experience building LLM applications and agentic systems, including RAG, model evaluation, and fine-tuning. * Experience designing and maintaining high-scale distributed backend systems (thousands of RPS, millions of data rows daily). * Full-stack capability spanning backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers. * Proficiency with infrastructure as code and deployment automation. * Deep domain expertise in antibot systems, reverse engineering, JavaScript deobfuscation, or browser automation is a strong plus. * Experience with web scraping, data extraction, or web automation at scale is a strong plus. * A bias toward action and comfort with the pace and ambiguity of an early-stage startup. * Preference for in-person, collaborative work with a tight-knit team. ### Compensation & Benefits Salary range: **$170,000 – $220,000 USD** annually. Visa sponsorship is available. ### Location On-site in **New York City, NY**. In-person attendance is expected. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: