Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Ship end-to-end product capabilities covering failure detection, conversation ingestion, patch generation, verification, and customer-facing workflows.
  • Own reproduction logic, guardrails, and checks that prevent bad pull requests from reaching customer repositories.
  • Work directly with customers by reviewing traces, participating in Slack channels, and identifying failures proactively.
  • Make long-term architectural decisions involving schema design, service boundaries, and speed-versus-correctness tradeoffs.
  • Define engineering culture, including testing standards, on-call practices, and release criteria.
  • Build across detection quality, high-volume ingestion pipelines, and the review UI.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience shipping production software with a track record of working beyond a core specialty.
  • Strong TypeScript proficiency across frontend and core services.
  • Experience building and operating AI agents in production, including understanding how and why they fail.
  • Experience designing cost-conscious data pipelines and systems for high-volume event data.
  • Experience making architectural decisions that shape long-term system design.
  • Strong product sense and ability to solve open-ended problems independently.
  • Comfort working with data at volume and evaluating cost per event.
  • Preferred experience with pull request review automation, code quality tooling, observability, or production monitoring systems.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $150,000 to $200,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
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