Clara
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.
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.
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
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)
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
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
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
least privilege and zero-trust principles across all systems
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
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)
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)
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
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
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.
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.
#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.
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 — and help us redefine B2B finance in Latin America.
