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title: 'Staff Platform Engineer at Clarify'
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# Staff Platform Engineer at Clarify

- **Company:** Clarify
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clarify/6977500e-d15e-48e8-a9a5-ca6ed9d5c620

## Job description

## About Clarify

Clarify is building the AI-native CRM — a platform designed from the ground up for how modern go-to-market teams actually work. We raised $22.5M and assembled a team of ~27 people who believe the CRM category is overdue for a complete rethink: less manual data entry, smarter automation, and AI that actually understands your pipeline. We're early and moving fast. The foundational decisions you make here will shape how the product scales.

## About the Role

A CRM is only as good as the data in it. Everything Clarify does — our AI Rep, reporting, Signals — runs on a platform that ingests, models and reacts to a constant stream of customer data: email, calendar, calls, product usage and records from tools like HubSpot, Salesforce and Stripe. That platform is where customer trust is won or lost, and it's where we're adding senior strength right now. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you'll own the foundations the rest of the product is built on: our data platform, ingestion pipelines, eventing system, integrations and public APIs. You'll set the technical direction for how data enters Clarify, how it's modeled and kept clean, and how the product and our customers build on top of it. You'll work closely with the founders and product squads, and you'll own the reliability of what you build in production.

## What you'll do

- Own the architecture of Clarify's data platform and set its technical direction as we scale
- Build ingestion pipelines that bring in email, calendar, calls and third-party data reliably and at volume
- Evolve our eventing system so product features, AI agents and Signals can react to changes in real time
- Design the canonical data model and integration framework that lets systems like HubSpot, Salesforce and Stripe map cleanly into Clarify
- Shape our public APIs and webhooks so customers and partners can build on Clarify
- Solve the hard parts: rate limits, backfills, ordering, idempotency, conflict resolution and dedup
- Build observability so we catch data issues before customers do
- Raise the bar for the engineering team through design reviews, mentoring and pragmatic standards
- Use AI in your workflow to move faster on modeling, testing and review

## Your background

- You've operated at a Staff level or above, owning the architecture of a data or platform system end-to-end
- You've built and run data platforms, ingestion pipelines or event-driven systems in production at scale
- Strong with TypeScript and Node.js; deep with Postgres
- You've built on queues and event streams (BullMQ, Kafka or similar)
- You've designed APIs and pipelines that handle conflicts, retries and partial failures gracefully
- You've built and operated integrations with third-party APIs
- You own what you ship in production, including on-call
- You've worked at a startup and like being close to customer impact
- Bonus: You've worked at a data or integration platform (Segment, Fivetran, Hightouch, Census, Merge, Paragon)
- Bonus: You've designed public developer APIs
- Bonus: Entity resolution or data-quality work

Our stack: TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js; Postgres, Kafka, BullMQ.

## Compensation and Benefits

We offer a salary range of $185,000-$230,000 depending on level and location, benchmarked against market data for startups our size, plus competitive stock options with standard 4-year vesting and a 1-year cliff. Benefits include fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you (50% for dependents), a 401(k) with company match, flexible time off, and generous parental leave. We bring the full team together 2–3 times a year for offsites. Our Seattle-based employees work from our Pioneer Square office three days a week. Outside of Seattle, we're a fully distributed team. Clarify is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to building an inclusive team and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

## About Clarify

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clarify is an autonomous CRM for B2B startups that uses AI agents to automate prospecting, follow-ups, and customer relationship management, allowing founders to focus on closing deals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding details not publicly available)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Patrick Thompson (CEO), Ondrej Hrebicek (CTO), Austin Hay (Co-CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Sales & Marketing Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Target customers: B2B, founder-led startups, modern sales teams (SMB to mid-market)
- Mission or purpose: "We’re building a CRM that fits how modern businesses actually work—not how they worked 20 years ago." – from the Clarify manifesto

## Products & Services
- **[Clarify (Platform)]**: The core autonomous CRM that syncs with email and calendar, unifies customer data, auto-configures fields, and automatically updates deal stages. It’s designed to reduce manual data entry and surface insights from calls and emails. (SaaS)
- **[Rep (AI Agent)]**: A personal sales agent that handles prospecting, follow-ups, meeting prep, task capture, and deal tracking. Rep works alongside the user to ensure no deals slip through the cracks. (AI Agent/SaaS)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 33 employees (as of 2026); yearly headcount growth of +36.4%; LinkedIn follower growth of +159.4% year over year
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid team expansion, high social media engagement, focus on a new CRM category (autonomous/agent-first), and talent sourced from companies like Amplitude, HubSpot, Snowflake, and Reforge.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native automation**: The platform is built from the ground up with AI agents (Rep) that handle prospecting, follow-ups, and meeting notes – reducing the need for multiple tools.
- **Self-configuring**: The CRM auto-fills fields and adapts to the user’s workflow without manual setup.
- **Founder-led focus**: Explicitly designed for founder-led startups, a niche that larger legacy CRMs often overlook.
- **Joyful user experience**: The company’s manifesto emphasizes a "joyful" interface, contrasting with the complexity of traditional CRMs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening AI agent capabilities**: Expanding Rep’s functionality to handle more sales tasks autonomously.
- **Scaling the team**: Growing the engineering and go-to-market teams to capture the autonomous CRM market.
- **Building a modern CRM category**: Positioning Clarify as the standard for how modern businesses manage customer relationships, moving away from rigid legacy systems.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Emphasizes "craftsmanship, innovation, and joy". The hiring process includes a "values interview" to ensure cultural alignment.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Offices in Seattle and San Francisco; likely hybrid (two company-wide offsites and two team offsites per year).
- **Notable perks**: 4 weeks paid time off, 401(k) with 3% match (fully vested immediately), comprehensive medical/dental/vision (100% covered for employee, 50% for dependents), MacBook Pro + monitor, competitive salary and equity.
- **Engineering culture**: 63% of the team is technical, with senior-heavy composition (33% senior). Talent sourced from top tech companies. The team is small (33 people) offering high ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [Clarify website](https://www.clarify.ai/)
2. [Clarify Careers page](https://www.clarify.ai/careers)
3. [Clarify Company page](https://www.clarify.ai/company)
4. [Clarify LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getclarify)
5. [Clarify Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clarify)

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