Clera

Founding Engineer, Infrastructure

Clera
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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$175k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate a durable, isolated integration runtime with recovery and self-healing capabilities.
  • Develop infrastructure for coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code in production.
  • Design observability across integrations and agents, including logs, metrics, and tracing.
  • Deliver a single-tenant, self-hostable deployment and own production operations.
  • Establish engineering patterns for future infrastructure hires and help grow the team.
  • Partner with the founding team and ship regular production improvements.

Requirements

  • Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment.
  • Strong software engineering and cloud infrastructure experience with end-to-end ownership of infrastructure or a platform.
  • Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production.
  • Experience designing production observability across logs, metrics, and tracing.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Docker, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
  • Effective use of AI coding agents alongside sound production engineering judgment.
  • A completed or in-progress technical degree from a strong university.
  • Startup founding or early-stage engineering experience is valuable.
  • Experience with self-hosted, single-tenant product deployments is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California, five days a week; candidates elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete relocation plan.
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