# Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Clera

Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Clera in San Mateo. On-site, full-time. Posted October 28, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: San Mateo
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 5+ years
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/97b7881b-bd1f-4bab-883d-f8ed5950465b/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-cloud-infrastructure-engineer-clera-gsb7k2

## Requirements

- Five or more years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with roughly 5 to 12 years of overall experience.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Production experience architecting and managing Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform.
- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure observability and logging, cloud security, and access control.
- Experience designing database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems at scale.
- Comfort building from scratch in an early-stage or high-growth environment, with a stable work history and full-time availability.
- Experience with data infrastructure, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI/ML platforms is helpful.

## Description

### About the Role

Join an early-stage AI infrastructure company as its founding cloud infrastructure engineer. You will design and build the cloud systems behind a platform that helps enterprise AI agents use reliable, governed business context.

### What You'll Do

- Design and build production cloud infrastructure from the ground up, guiding architecture through deployment and scaling.

- Own infrastructure decisions and establish standards and practices for a growing engineering team.

- Build and operate Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms and infrastructure-as-code systems.

- Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and logging.

- Design secure cloud networking, access controls, and database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems.

- Support data infrastructure and pipelines that power the platform.

### What We're Looking For

- Five or more years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with roughly 5 to 12 years of overall experience.

- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.

- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

- Production experience architecting and managing Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform.

- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure observability and logging, cloud security, and access control.

- Experience designing database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems at scale.

- Comfort building from scratch in an early-stage or high-growth environment, with a stable work history and full-time availability.

- Experience with data infrastructure, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI/ML platforms is helpful.

### Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available. Salary and equity details were not provided.

### Location

On-site in San Mateo, California, United States.