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-managed environments.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rollback tooling.
  • Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems.
  • Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response practices, and postmortems.
  • Implement secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, audit logging, and other security controls.
  • Track service costs and capacity, plan for traffic growth, and reduce infrastructure waste.
  • Set platform standards and help hire and onboard future infrastructure engineers while remaining hands-on.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including production on-call work.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
  • Experience building CI/CD and deployment tooling for frequent, reliable releases.
  • Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud accounts, networking, databases, and compute.
  • Strong security fundamentals, including IAM, network boundaries, secrets management, and SOC 2 compliance work.
  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and read application code, including experience verifying and owning code developed with AI-assisted tools.
  • Experience leading a growing engineering team while remaining technically involved, and hiring or onboarding infrastructure engineers.

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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