Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems
CleraIndustrial Electrification company
New York, United States$200,000 - $350,000 USDSenior
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Design and build a greenfield distributed OLAP lakehouse platform.
- •This is a Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems role at a seed-stage AI-native enterprise analytics startup based in New York City.
- •The company is building an agentic data lakehouse
- •a next-generation data platform designed to turn messy enterprise data into trustworthy, queryable answers at scale.
- •Backed by notable institutional investors and serving large-scale enterprise customers across healthcare, financial services, and Fortune 100 companies, the team is roughly 40 people and growing fast.
- •You'll join at a pivotal moment to work on a greenfield OLAP lakehouse project
- •building foundational data infrastructure for the agentic era, where autonomous agents will drive the vast majority of queries.
- •If you find yourself genuinely excited by JOIN order optimization or have ever implemented a query optimizer for fun, this role was written for you.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and build core components of a greenfield distributed OLAP lakehouse platform from the ground up.
- •Drive query performance improvements, including join optimization and query execution strategies suited to agent-driven workloads.
- •Collaborate across infrastructure, backend services, and frontend layers to deliver end-to-end data platform features.
- •Ship reliable, scalable data infrastructure that supports enterprise-grade analytics at scale.
- •Requirements 4+ years of experience as a data systems, backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer with a focus on building or delivering data infrastructure.
- •Hands-on experience with OLAP lakehouse or data lakehouse architecture, including query optimization and join optimization.
- •Proficiency in Haskell and/or TypeScript (the team's primary tech stack).
- •Experience building and shipping distributed data systems or big data platforms (e.g., Apache Spark, Hadoop).
Required skills
HaskellTypeScriptSparkPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBCassandraSQLPythonJavaScriptDocker
Nice-to-have skills
AWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformKubernetesCI/CD
Domain expertise
aifintechhealthcare
Benefits & perks
Equity participation, Visa sponsorship
Tech stack
HaskellTypeScriptSparkPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBCassandraSQLPythonJavaScriptAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit