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 30 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team as its first infrastructure hire, owning the runtime, agent infrastructure, observability, and self-hostable deployment platform. You will work closely with the founders, establish foundational engineering practices, and help grow the infrastructure team.

What You'll Do

  • Build and operate a cloud runtime with durable execution, sandboxed isolation, 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 product deployment and own the infrastructure platform end to end.
  • Set engineering patterns for future infrastructure hires, ship production improvements regularly, and help hire and lead the team as it grows.

What We're Looking For

  • Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments.
  • Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
  • Practical cloud infrastructure experience, production observability expertise across logs, metrics, and tracing, and familiarity with Kubernetes, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.
  • Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.
  • A completed or in-progress degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.
  • Experience as a funded startup founder or as an engineer at an early-stage, well-backed startup; experience with self-hosted, single-tenant deployments is valuable.
  • Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available to work on-site five days a week, or US-based with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available, including O-1 sponsorship where appropriate.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Docker · Kubernetes

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Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 201 open in Engineering. 135 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 (94 of 201), TypeScript (88 of 201), Python (81 of 201), React (74 of 201), Machine Learning (41 of 201), PostgreSQL (40 of 201), Supabase (36 of 201)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted once since 8 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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