Latin America Hybrid Employment

Clara is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer - Remote

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Apply 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

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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)

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Additional Information

  • 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
Required Skills
DevOps/SRE/Platform EngineeringKubernetesmicroservices architecturCI/CD toolsInfrastructure as Codecontainersobservability toolsBackstage.io or similar developer portalFinTech organizations or highly regulateAI Ops toolsservice mesh DevOps/SRE/Platform EngineeringKubernetesmicroservices architecturCI/CD toolsInfrastructure as Codecontainersobservability toolsBackstage.io or similar developer portalFinTech organizations or highly regulateAI Ops toolsservice mesh
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Clara
Clara is the leading B2B fintech for spend management in Latin America, providing corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform to over 20,000 businesses. The company builds financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region.
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