Clera

Founding DevOps Engineer

Clera
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20 hours ago

Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, including infrastructure-as-code environments.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, preview environments, feature flags, gated tests, and rollback capabilities.
  • Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems.
  • Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response practices, and postmortems.
  • Implement security controls including secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency scanning, audit logs, and privacy-supporting infrastructure.
  • Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
  • Set platform standards and help hire engineers as the team grows.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibilities.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
  • Track record of building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling for frequent, reliable releases.
  • Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud infrastructure ownership, IAM, and vulnerability scanning.
  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and work with application code in production systems.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and the judgment to verify and own shipped code.
  • Experience with cost monitoring, capacity planning, and helping teams adopt infrastructure practices.
  • Hands-on, founding-team mindset.

Benefits

  • Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Base salary of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
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