Founding Engineer – Infrastructure

Posted:
7/31/2026, 11:08:57 PM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$175k–$300k/yr

About the Role

This is the first infrastructure hire at a fast-moving agentic integration platform building for the real economy. You'll work directly with the CTO as a true peer and founding team member — owning the entire infrastructure and platform layer from day one, with a clear path to leading the infra team within roughly 12 months.

Think of the core product as a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing systems — plus the agent infrastructure and observability story that ties it all together.

What You'll Do

  • Build and own the integration runtime platform — durable execution, sandboxed isolation, self-healing behaviour (think: a Vercel-style platform purpose-built for integration workloads).

  • Own the agent infrastructure — coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code, running reliably at scale in production.

  • Deliver full observability across every integration and agent run, including a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment path for enterprise customers.

  • Set the engineering patterns that every future infrastructure hire builds on.

  • Participate in infra-related hiring and grow into leading the team that owns this domain.

  • Ship to production constantly, collaborating closely with founders and engineering peers.

What We're Looking For

Required

  • 3+ years of hands-on infrastructure or platform engineering experience at a high-growth startup or equivalent fast-paced environment.

  • Production Kubernetes experience — deployment, day-to-day operations, and debugging at 2 a.m.

  • Track record of owning infrastructure or a platform end-to-end, not merely contributing to one.

  • Experience building or operating self-hosted, single-tenant deployment architectures.

  • Proficiency in TypeScript development.

  • Hands-on experience deploying and scaling PostgreSQL.

  • Solid working knowledge of AWS cloud services.

  • Docker / containerized environment experience.

  • Ability and willingness to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area (relocation support available).

  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; comfortable working directly with founders.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with agentic systems, LLM orchestration, or AI-driven developer tooling.

  • Background in integration platforms, workflow engines, or durable execution frameworks (e.g., Temporal).

  • Prior experience hiring or leading a small infrastructure team.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $175,000 – $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience.

  • Early-stage equity as a founding team member.

  • Visa sponsorship available.

Location

  • On-site — San Francisco, CA, United States.

  • Relocation support available for the right candidate.

Clera

Website: https://www.getclera.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 1-10

Year Founded: 2025

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Pre-Seed

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