
With over 3.2M+ installs and 50k+ GitHub stars, Cline is the leading open-source AI coding agent. Trusted by the world's largest engineering organizations and individual developers alike, Cline is model agnostic, provider agnostic, and IDE agnostic, meeting engineers everywhere they work while keeping code on your infrastructure. Teams choose Cline because it's the only coding agent that combines cutting-edge capability with enterprise-grade security, using existing provider contracts directly with zero markup. Cline has raised $32M in combined Series A and Seed funding, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital, with participation from 1984 Ventures, Essence VC, and Cox Exponential.

With over 3.2M+ installs and 50k+ GitHub stars, Cline is the leading open-source AI coding agent. Trusted by the world's largest engineering organizations and individual developers alike, Cline is model agnostic, provider agnostic, and IDE agnostic, meeting engineers everywhere they work while keeping code on your infrastructure. Teams choose Cline because it's the only coding agent that combines cutting-edge capability with enterprise-grade security, using existing provider contracts directly with zero markup. Cline has raised $32M in combined Series A and Seed funding, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital, with participation from 1984 Ventures, Essence VC, and Cox Exponential.
Product: Open-source AI coding agent (editor extensions + CLI) that runs client-side
Traction: 3.2M+ installs and 50k+ GitHub stars
Funding: Has raised $32M across Seed and Series A
Investors (leads): Emergence Capital and Pace Capital
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Developer productivity and automation for software engineering workflows
2024
Developer tools / Artificial intelligence
$32M
Combined Seed and Series A funding amount reported as $32M with Emergence Capital and Pace Capital noted as lead investors; additional participating investors reported.
“Emergence Capital and Pace Capital named as lead investors; additional investors reported”
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Who We Are With over 3.2M+ installs and 50k+ GitHub stars, Cline is the leading open-source AI coding agent. Trusted by the world's largest engineering organizations and individual developers alike, Cline is model agnostic, provider agnostic, and IDE agnostic, meeting engineers everywhere they work while keeping code on your infrastructure. Teams choose Cline because it's the only coding agent that combines cutting-edge capability with enterprise-grade security, using existing provider contracts directly with zero markup. Cline has raised $32M in combined Series A and Seed funding, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital, with participation from 1984 Ventures, Essence VC, and Cox Exponential.
What We Are Looking For As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in architecting and building core components of our platform. You’ll work across distributed systems, AI inference pipelines, developer-facing APIs, and enterprise integrations—helping us deliver a secure, reliable, and world-class coding experience to thousands of engineers.
You will be expected to drive technical decisions end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and collaborate closely with product and design to ship features that delight enterprise developers.
Responsibilities
Design and build core systems powering our AI-assisted coding workflows, including:
High-performance API layers for code suggestions, code review, and debugging.
Scalable LLM inference & caching infrastructure optimized for low latency.
Secure enterprise integrations (IDEs, Git providers, CI/CD systems).
Own major technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through implementation, testing, and production support.
Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize and optimize LLM models for enterprise use cases.
Drive system reliability, observability, and performance improvements as we scale to thousands of concurrent enterprise users.
Establish engineering best practices, contribute to technical strategy, and mentor other engineers on the team.
Work closely with product managers and designers to shape roadmap decisions and trade-offs.
Qualifications
Our cash compensation range for this role is $225,000 - $250,000+.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package. Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.