Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$160k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and ship core infrastructure components, including query execution, graph storage, and distributed systems.
  • Make architecture decisions alongside the founding team and resolve complex technical trade-offs.
  • Contribute to benchmarking and research that defines the platform’s technical direction.
  • Participate in architecture reviews and help raise the technical ceiling as the engineering team grows.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of relevant engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in Rust or Go, or a strong drive to develop deep expertise in one of them.
  • Hands-on production experience designing and shipping query engines, storage layers, graph internals, or similar core infrastructure.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and ability to reason from first principles.
  • Ability to own large, ambiguous problems with an ownership mindset.
  • Experience building or scaling distributed systems, databases, or storage infrastructure is strongly preferred.
  • Open-source contributions to systems-level projects and prior founding-engineer or early-stage infrastructure experience are bonuses.

Benefits

  • Base salary plus meaningful equity.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.

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