Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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1 day ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and own production systems across agent orchestration, infrastructure, and the integrations runtime.
  • Develop reliable systems for durable execution, self-healing integrations, and an improving knowledge base.
  • Establish engineering patterns and foundations for the growing team.
  • Work directly with the founders and ship frequently to production.
  • Shape the overall technical system and foundation for future engineers.

Requirements

  • Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience with repeated ownership of production systems from development through operation.
  • Experience across agent platforms, infrastructure, and integration runtimes, with strong production-quality judgment while using AI coding agents.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Bun, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS.
  • A completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a top technical university.
  • Startup experience as a founder whose company raised outside funding or hired a full-time employee, or as an engineer at a venture-backed pre-seed through Series A startup.
  • Early-stage technology experience rather than solely large-company, enterprise, consulting, agency, or non-tech experience.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available when an O-1 visa is a realistic option.
  • On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.
  • US-based candidates relocating to San Francisco should have a concrete, dated relocation plan.

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