Clera

Founding DevOps Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute using infrastructure as code.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rollback capabilities.
  • Design and operate observability systems for logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
  • Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response processes, and postmortems.
  • Implement security controls for secrets, access, dependencies, audit logs, and privacy commitments.
  • Monitor costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce infrastructure waste.
  • Set operational standards and help build the engineering team.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibility.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
  • Experience building high-velocity deployment tooling, observability systems, and incident response practices.
  • Practical security experience with secrets management, least-privilege access, IAM, network boundaries, dependency scanning, audit logs, and SOC 2 work.
  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand the application code being deployed.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and the judgment to verify and own shipped work.
  • Hands-on founding-team mindset and enthusiasm for setting standards in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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