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Clera

Founding DevOps Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$200,000 - $300,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 24 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Build the operational platform for an early-stage AI assistant company. As the founding DevOps engineer, you will help a small engineering team ship quickly while keeping production systems reliable and secure.

What You'll Do

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, managing environments as code.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.
  • Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems to identify issues early.
  • Establish on-call rotations, write runbooks, lead incident response, and run postmortems that prevent recurring problems.
  • Implement security controls for secrets, access permissions, dependency scanning, audit logs, and privacy requirements.
  • Track infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
  • Set platform standards and help hire and onboard future infrastructure engineers.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including production on-call responsibilities.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
  • A track record of building deployment tooling and CI/CD pipelines that support frequent, reliable releases.
  • Experience with observability, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Strong security fundamentals, including secrets management, least-privilege access, network boundaries, and compliance work such as SOC 2.
  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand application code in production systems.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools while verifying and taking responsibility for shipped code.
  • A hands-on, early-team mindset, with experience managing costs and capacity as systems grow.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Pulumi

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles

CI/CD · Python · Terraform

Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 450 open in Engineering. 384 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

Python (192 of 450), LLM (186 of 450), TypeScript (176 of 450), React (140 of 450), Machine Learning (114 of 450), PostgreSQL (81 of 450), JavaScript (77 of 450)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Other openings for this role

4 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 14 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

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