Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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5 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime from design through production.
  • Establish engineering patterns and standards for the growing team.
  • Collaborate with founders by providing technical leadership and judgment.
  • Build and ship reliable, observable production systems with measurable customer impact.
  • Develop end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
  • Implement monitoring, tracing, reliable retry patterns, and queuing patterns for distributed systems.

Requirements

  • 3–9 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to build a product or system from zero to one.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js for full-stack development.
  • Experience building workflows around large language models and agent-based platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and PostgreSQL, including cloud infrastructure and database design.
  • Strong computer science or engineering academic background with a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD.
  • Experience at an early-stage, venture-backed startup; candidates whose careers have been exclusively at large enterprises or big tech are not a fit.
  • Enthusiasm for joining as the first employee and shaping the company from the ground up.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic option.
  • On-site in San Francisco five days per week.
  • US-based candidates elsewhere may apply with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.
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