Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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6 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end to end.
  • Define engineering standards and architectural patterns for the future engineering team.
  • Collaborate with founders on technical direction, decisions, and leadership.
  • Consistently ship production-ready software with reliable, observable systems and measurable customer impact.
  • Build and maintain workflows around large language models and agent-based platforms.
  • Implement observability, monitoring, tracing, retry, and queuing patterns for production distributed systems.

Requirements

  • 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to build a product or system from zero to one in an early-stage startup or serious side project.
  • Experience integrating or building workflows around LLMs and agent-based platforms.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js for full-stack development.
  • Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL data storage and database design.
  • Track record of owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and tracing in production systems.
  • Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.
  • Strong computer science or engineering fundamentals, ideally from a rigorous academic background.
  • Background at an early-stage, venture-backed startup or comparable fast-paced environment.
  • Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or able to provide a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $150,000 to $250,000 USD.
  • Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.
  • On-site work five days per week in San Francisco, California.
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