Sr Software Engineer

Sr Software Engineer

Clearly AI

Software Engineering

United States · Seattle, WA, USA · Remote

USD 150k-175k / year + Equity

Automate security and privacy reviews

Job type: Full-time

Role: Engineering, Full stack

Experience: 6+ years

Visa: US citizen/visa only

Skills: Next.js, React, TypeScript

About the role

I'll cut to the chase.

We are in the trenches.

We need someone to crank out features while improving infrastructure against a fast and rapidly evolving roadmap.

You're expected to autonomously identify problems, propose solutions, and execute delivery at high quality. The work will be unglamorous for a bit, but the reward is high and the mission is true.

Agentic software engineering skill is a requirement. You're expected to deliver at the speed of a human piloting and managing multiple agents to efficiently build enterprise-grade, production-ready software. At the same time, you will take responsibility over the output code. You're responsible for bringing down comprehension debt introduced by agents. Vibe coders, beware: if you think you can delegate your work to an agent and coast, you are in for a rude awakening.

In other words, you must be a better software engineer than Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4.

Of course, none of this should surprise you, searching for a sr. software engineering role on WaaS in 2026.

In your application, please include a blurb about your favorite modern SaaS product to use and why. If you write a blurb that smells like GPT, I will not reply.

About Clearly AI

Clearly AI automates security and privacy reviews with AI. We built the product we wish we had after performing hundreds of reviews at Amazon and Moveworks, and today our users complete reviews in minutes instead of days.

Clearly AI helps engineering teams ship faster by automating security and privacy reviews. Companies like Rivian, HID Global, and Affirm use Clearly AI to cut review times from weeks to minutes. We're building a new kind of AI workspace designed to help security, privacy, and compliance experts meet high standards in regulated enterprises.

We're a fast-growing YC startup with enterprise customers who depend on us to stay secure and compliant without slowing down. As our founding UX/UI design engineer, you'll shape the product experience end-to-end and set the design bar for everything that follows.

Role Description

Full-time, Sr Software Engineer at Clearly AI. You will be responsible for designing and developing enterprise-grade full-stack AI B2B SaaS web apps. Given the size and stage of our startup, you will take responsibility over significant portions of the product.

Location

Seattle/SF preferred, remote OK. We meet in person 1-2x per quarter. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional experience developing software.
• Willingness to work directly with users and prioritize their needs over our internal dev experience.
• Strong proficiency in Typescript, NextJS, modern Python toolchain (uv, ruff, ty, etc.).
• A love of type safety, coding discipline.
• Plus: deep knowledge of integrations, oauth2, abac, infra-as-code, agent sandboxes, security, AWS, CDK, the quirks of each of the major LLM APIs, Convex, building for enterprise customers, security and privacy assessments.
• Bonus: ability to recite the entirety of Designing Data Intensive Applications in reverse.