Clera

Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

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4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$175k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate a mini cloud platform for durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing.
  • Build and scale agent infrastructure that runs coding agents producing, testing, and deploying integration code in production.
  • Implement observability across logs, metrics, and distributed tracing for integrations and agents.
  • Ship a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment as a standalone product.
  • Establish engineering patterns for future infrastructure hires.
  • Help recruit and grow into leading the infrastructure team within roughly a year.
  • Work directly with the CTO and founding team while continuously shipping to production.

Requirements

  • Have 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in a high-growth startup or as a founder/co-founder.
  • Be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or have a firm, dated plan to relocate there, and work on-site five days per week.
  • Have hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production.
  • Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
  • Have strong observability experience covering logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
  • Experience shipping self-hostable, single-tenant product deployments is preferred.
  • Be comfortable using AI coding agents while maintaining production-quality engineering judgment.
  • Have solid computer science or quantitative fundamentals from a completed or in-progress university degree.
  • Be fluent with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Benefits

  • On-site work five days a week in San Francisco, California.
  • O-1 visa sponsorship is available for qualified candidates.
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