Clera

Founding DevOps Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, compute, and infrastructure-as-code environments.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, preview environments, feature flags, gated tests, and rollback capabilities.
  • Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems.
  • Establish on-call rotations, write runbooks, lead incident response, and conduct postmortems.
  • Implement secrets, access, dependency-scanning, audit-log, privacy, and other security controls.
  • Track infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
  • Set platform standards and help hire and onboard future infrastructure engineers.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including production on-call responsibilities.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
  • Experience building deployment tooling and CI/CD pipelines for frequent, reliable releases.
  • Experience with observability, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Strong security fundamentals involving secrets management, least-privilege access, network boundaries, and compliance such as SOC 2.
  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand application code in production systems.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools while verifying and taking responsibility for shipped code.
  • Experience managing costs and capacity as systems grow, along with a hands-on early-team mindset.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
  • Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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