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Senior Platform Engineer - Remote

Latin AmericaRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Mar 2026

About the role

Ready to accelerate your career?

Clara is the fastest-growing company in Latin America. We've built the leading solution for companies to make and manage all their payments. We already help over 20,000 large and growing businesses operate with agility and financial clarity through locally issued corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform built for scale.

Clara is backed by some of the most successful investors in the world, including top regional VCs like monashees, Kaszek, and Canary, and leading global funds like Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, Citius, Endeavor Catalyst, and Goldman Sachs - in addition to dozens of angel investors and local family offices.

We’re building the financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region. We invite you to join us if you want to be part of a fast-paced environment that will accelerate your career and support you to do some of the best work of your life alongside a passionate and committed team distributed across the Americas.

Role Summary

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to revolutionize the development experience at Clara by building a self-service platform that automates and simplifies infrastructure, deployments, and operations. You'll be responsible for eliminating friction in the development lifecycle, enabling engineering teams to focus on delivering business value.

Key Responsibilities

Developer Experience & Self-Service Platform

Design and maintain a developer portal (Backstage.io or similar) as the central hub for resource management
Build abstractions and APIs that enable developers to provision resources without manual intervention
Implement self-service workflows for environment creation, configurations, and permissions
Create reusable templates and blueprints for services, repositories, and pipelines

CI/CD & Automation

Design, implement, and optimize highly automated CI/CD pipelines
Reduce build and deployment times through intelligent caching, parallelization, and optimizations
Implement GitOps and continuous deployment with automated rollback capabilities
Automate testing (unit, integration, e2e) in pipelines with clear reporting
Create advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, feature flags)

Ephemeral Environments

Design and implement ephemeral/preview environment solutions for each PR/branch
Automate the complete lifecycle: creation, configuration, and cleanup
Optimize costs through auto-scaling, scheduling, and garbage collection of unused resources
Integrate ephemeral environments with code review and testing workflows

Observability & Alerting

Implement intelligent alerting systems with noise reduction and event correlation
Configure dashboards and SLI/SLO metrics for critical services
Establish automated runbooks and auto-remediation for common incidents
Integrate observability (logs, metrics, traces) into the developer portal

Infrastructure as Code & Security

Maintain and evolve infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
Implement automated security controls (policy as code, security scanning)
Manage secrets, configurations, and access securely and with full auditability
Apply least privilege and zero-trust principles across all systems

AI/ML Ops Integration

Explore and implement AI tools for resource optimization and failure prediction
Automate operational tasks using ML (anomaly detection, capacity planning, incident classification)
Evaluate and adopt emerging AI Ops tools