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title: "Founding Infrastructure Engineer"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-infrastructure-engineer-fe9e4371-52f0-43b5-84cb-3624653a49de"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/82a260ac-a142-4736-b9a3-7b9ab46cb1b6"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: devops-infrastructure
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "docker", "kubernetes", "postgres", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-17T17:19:04.020Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-17T17:36:30.141Z
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# Founding Infrastructure Engineer

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/82a260ac-a142-4736-b9a3-7b9ab46cb1b6

## 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 as a true founding team member. You will own the entire infra and platform layer from day one, with a clear path to leading the infrastructure team as it grows. The work directly shapes how integration runtimes and AI coding agents run reliably at scale in production.

##### What You'll Do

- Own and evolve a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing systems.

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

- Design and maintain full observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for every integration and agent run.

- Ship a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment of the platform as a first-class product.

- Set the engineering patterns and standards that every future infrastructure hire will build on.

- Work as a peer to the founding team, shipping to production constantly.

- Help hire and, within roughly a year, grow into leading the infrastructure team.

##### What We're Looking For

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

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

- End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform, not just contributing to one.

- Practical cloud infrastructure background rather than primarily data infrastructure experience.

- Strong observability design skills across logs, metrics, and tracing for production systems.

- Comfortable using AI coding agents effectively while maintaining rigorous production engineering judgment.

- Experience building self-hostable, single-tenant product deployments is a strong plus.

- Prior experience at a venture-backed startup or as a founder; a career spent only at large enterprises does not fit this role.

- Strong computer science fundamentals from a rigorous technical degree program.

- Fluency in TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: **$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 are welcome with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.

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