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title: "Founding Engineer - Infrastructure"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-engineer-infrastructure-f45f9a7c-543a-4b51-8643-a12a6faa2774"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/a799890a-86ff-42b1-ab48-65591acda462"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: devops-infrastructure
region: united-states
skills: ["kubernetes"]
date_posted: 2026-09-10T17:19:12.615Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:29:34.147Z
---

# Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/a799890a-86ff-42b1-ab48-65591acda462

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is the first infrastructure hire at a seed-stage gig economy and flexible staffing platform, working directly with the CTO on a clear path to leading the infra domain. You will own the full runtime and platform layer from day one, setting the patterns every future infrastructure engineer builds on.

##### What You'll Do

- Own and evolve the integration runtime platform: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing behavior.

- Build and operate the agent infrastructure that runs coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code at production scale.

- Design and ship full observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for every integration and agent workflow.

- Deliver a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment of the platform as a standalone product.

- Set the foundational engineering patterns the growing infrastructure team will inherit.

- Work as a peer to the founders, shipping to production constantly and helping hire the team you will eventually lead.

##### What We're Looking For

- 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years in fast-moving, ambiguous environments at a high-growth startup.

- Background at a startup backed by a top-tier venture firm or comparable high-growth environment; big-tech-only backgrounds are not a strong fit for this role.

- Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production.

- End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform, rather than contributing to a larger team's system.

- Cloud infrastructure focus (not primarily data infrastructure).

- Experience designing observability systems spanning logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.

- Comfortable using AI coding agents as a productivity tool while applying strong production-quality engineering judgment.

- Bonus: experience building self-hostable or single-tenant product deployments.

- Strong computer science fundamentals from a rigorous academic background.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: **$175,000 to $300,000 USD annually.** Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.

##### Location

On-site, five days a week in **San Francisco, CA, United States.** Candidates based elsewhere in the US with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco are also considered.

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