Clera

Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

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5 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$175k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate a durable-execution, sandboxed integration runtime for integration workloads.
  • Build and scale agent infrastructure that runs coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code in production.
  • Own the observability pipeline across logs, metrics, and tracing for integrations and agents.
  • Ship a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment as a first-class product.
  • Set engineering patterns and standards across the infrastructure domain.
  • Help hire and grow into leading the infrastructure team within roughly a year.
  • Work as a peer to the founding team and ship continuously to production.

Requirements

  • 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience with broad infrastructure ownership.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals from a rigorous technical degree program.
  • Background as a founder or early engineer at a high-growth, venture-backed startup.
  • Hands-on production experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes.
  • End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform product.
  • A cloud infrastructure focus rather than a background primarily centered on data infrastructure.
  • Proficiency designing observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for production systems.
  • Comfort with AI-assisted engineering workflows while maintaining production-quality judgment.
  • Experience building self-hostable, single-tenant product deployments is a plus.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.
  • On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.
  • US candidates elsewhere may apply with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.
  • Leadership track with an opportunity to grow into leading the infrastructure team.
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