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Clera

Founding Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco
Salary
$175,000 - $300,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 22 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team as its first infrastructure engineer, owning the runtime, agent infrastructure, observability, and self-hosted deployment experience. You will work closely with the founding team, establish the platform patterns for future hires, and have a path toward leading this domain.

What You'll Do

  • Build and operate a cloud runtime for integrations, including durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and resilient recovery.
  • Develop infrastructure for coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code in production.
  • Design observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for integrations and agents.
  • Build and maintain single-tenant, self-hostable product deployments.
  • Own infrastructure and platform decisions end to end, and establish engineering practices for future infrastructure hires.
  • Ship production systems regularly and help grow the team responsible for this area.

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.
  • Production experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
  • Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience and a strong understanding of production observability across logs, metrics, and tracing.
  • Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.
  • Experience building self-hosted, single-tenant product deployments is valuable.
  • A completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree and strong technical fundamentals.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $175,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site five days per week in San Francisco, California. Candidates based elsewhere in the United States must have a concrete plan to relocate to San Francisco.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Kubernetes

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 406 open in Engineering. 340 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (170 of 406), Python (170 of 406), TypeScript (159 of 406), React (126 of 406), Machine Learning (98 of 406), PostgreSQL (74 of 406), JavaScript (69 of 406)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Other openings for this role

3 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 8 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

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