Clera
Founding Engineer, Infrastructure
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14 November 2026 (yesterday)
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About this role
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage workforce technology platform as its first infrastructure hire, partnering with the founding team to build the systems behind its integration runtime. You will own core infrastructure and help shape the team and technical foundations as the platform grows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and operate a durable, isolated runtime for integrations, including recovery 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 a single-tenant, self-hostable deployment and own its production operations.
- Establish engineering patterns for future infrastructure hires and help grow the team.
- Work closely with the founding team and ship production improvements regularly.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment.
- Strong software engineering and cloud infrastructure experience, with end-to-end ownership of infrastructure or a platform.
- Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production.
- Experience designing production observability across logs, metrics, and tracing.
- Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS, Docker, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
- Effective use of AI coding agents alongside sound production engineering judgment.
- A completed or in-progress technical degree from a strong university; startup founding or early-stage engineering experience is valuable.
- Experience with self-hosted, single-tenant product deployments is a plus.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days a week. Candidates currently based elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete relocation plan.
Work location
- San Francisco, CA, US
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Published 14 November 2026, last checked today. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.