# Founding DevOps Engineer at Clera

Founding DevOps Engineer at Clera in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $200k–$300k. Posted November 1, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $200k–$300k
- Posted: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/63c3b251-8874-4a84-b9af-55c06737b422/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-devops-engineer-clera-91dfzd

## Requirements

- At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibilities.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
- A track record of building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling that support frequent, reliable releases.
- Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud infrastructure ownership, and security practices such as IAM and vulnerability scanning.
- Ability to write TypeScript or Python and work with application code in production systems.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, with the judgment to verify and take ownership of shipped code.
- A hands-on, founding-team mindset, with experience in cost monitoring, capacity planning, and helping teams adopt infrastructure practices.

## Description

### About the Role

As the founding DevOps Engineer at an early-stage personal AI company, you will build the operational platform that enables a small engineering team to ship frequently and keep a trusted product reliable. You will establish the infrastructure, security, and incident response practices that support the product as it grows.

### What You'll Do

- Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, defining environments as code so engineers can provision and remove them reliably.

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.

- Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems that surface issues early.

- Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response practices, and lead postmortems that reduce repeat issues.

- Implement security controls, including secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency scanning, audit logs, and infrastructure supporting privacy commitments.

- Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.

- Set platform standards and help hire engineers as the team grows.

### What We're Looking For

- At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibilities.

- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.

- A track record of building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling that support frequent, reliable releases.

- Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud infrastructure ownership, and security practices such as IAM and vulnerability scanning.

- Ability to write TypeScript or Python and work with application code in production systems.

- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, with the judgment to verify and take ownership of shipped code.

- A hands-on, founding-team mindset, with experience in cost monitoring, capacity planning, and helping teams adopt infrastructure practices.

### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

### Location

Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California.