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 cloud runtime with durable execution, sandboxed isolation, 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 and own a single-tenant, self-hostable product deployment and infrastructure platform end to end.
  • Establish engineering patterns, ship regular production improvements, and help hire and lead the growing infrastructure team.

Requirements

  • Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments.
  • Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
  • Practical cloud infrastructure and production observability experience across logs, metrics, and tracing.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.
  • Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.
  • A completed or in-progress degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.
  • Experience as a funded startup founder or as an engineer at an early-stage, well-backed startup.
  • Experience with self-hosted, single-tenant deployments is valuable.
  • Candidates must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to work on-site five days per week, or be US-based with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available, including O-1 sponsorship where appropriate.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.
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