Senior Platform Engineer - Remote at Clara

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 Technical Requirements Must Have • 5+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering • Mastery of cloud providers (preferably AWS) • Solid experience with Kubernetes and microservices architectures • Expertise in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD) • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) • Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS) • Advanced scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go) • Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic) Nice to Have • Experience with Backstage.io or similar developer portal platforms • FinOps knowledge and cloud cost optimization • Experience in FinTech organizations or highly regulated environments • Familiarity with AI Ops tools (AIOps platforms, ML-based monitoring) • Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, etc.) • Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) • Compliance and security knowledge (PCI-DSS, SOC2) Key Skills • Automation obsession: If something is done twice, it should be automated • Product mindset: Treat internal platform as a product with "customers" (developers) • Ability to abstract complexity: Make the complex simple for end users • Effective communication: Document clearly, create runbooks, and educate teams • Problem solving: Systems thinking to solve problems at their root • Continuous improvement mindset: Constantly seek ways to optimize and simplify What You'll Build • Self-Service Portal: Unified interface where developers can: • Create new services from templates • Provision ephemeral environments in seconds • Configure alerts and dashboards with clicks • Request access and permissions with automated approvals • Intelligent Pipelines: CI/CD that: • Detects changes and runs only relevant tests • Auto-deploys to production with quality gates • Auto-rollback on failures • Provides instant feedback to developers • On-Demand Environments: System that: • Creates complete environments per PR in <5 minutes • Sanitized copy of production data • Unique URLs for testing and demos • Automatic cleanup when PR is closed • Proactive Observability: Platform that: • Alerts only when action is required • Automatically suggests root causes • Auto-remediation of known issues • Customized dashboards per team/service Why join Clara At Clara, you’ll have the autonomy, speed, and support to make meaningful impact — not just on your team, but on how organizations are run across Latin America. Who we are • We’re the leading B2B fintech for spend management in Latin America. • Certified as one of the world's fastest-growing companies, a Great Place to Work, and a LinkedIn Top Startup. • Passionate about making Latin America more prosperous and competitive. • Constantly innovating to build financial infrastructure that enables each of our customers to thrive. • Product-led, high-talent-density culture — designed for builders who raise the bar. • Proud of our open, inclusive, and values-driven environment. What we believe in • #Clarity. We say things clearly, directly, and proactively. • #Simplicity. We reduce noise to focus on what really matters. • #Ownership. We take responsibility and never wait to be told. • #Pride. We build products and experiences we’re proud of. • #Always Be Changing (ABC). We grow through feedback, risk-taking, and action. • #Inclusivity. Every voice counts. Everyone contributes to our mission. What we offer • Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one • Multicultural team with daily exposure to Portuguese, Spanish, and English (our corporate language) • Annual learning budget and internal accelerated development paths • High-ownership environment: we move fast, learn fast, and raise the bar — together • Smart, ambitious teammates — low ego, high impact • Flexible vacation and hybrid work model focused on results If you’re ready for growth, ownership, and impact — apply now and help us redefine B2B finance in Latin America. Clara’s Hybrid Policy Claridians in a hybrid mode split their time between working from the office, talking to or visiting customers, or working from home. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for each individual and team. We don't enforce a minimum number of days for most roles, but you're expected to spend time at the office organically, and be at the office most days during your ramp-up or when required by your leader.