# Founding Engineer, Infrastructure at Clera

Founding Engineer, Infrastructure at Clera in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $175k–$300k. Posted October 30, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $175k–$300k
- Posted: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/00727d00-37eb-4530-bc19-708e42376800/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-engineer-infrastructure-clera-hyhnf7

## Requirements

- Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments.
- Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
- Practical cloud infrastructure experience, production observability expertise across logs, metrics, and tracing, and familiarity with Kubernetes, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.
- Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.
- A completed or in-progress degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.
- Experience as a funded startup founder or as an engineer at an early-stage, well-backed startup; experience with self-hosted, single-tenant deployments is valuable.
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available to work on-site five days a week, or US-based with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.

## Description

### About the Role

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team as its first infrastructure hire, owning the runtime, agent infrastructure, observability, and self-hostable deployment platform. You will work closely with the founders, establish foundational engineering practices, and help grow the infrastructure team.

### What You'll Do

- Build and operate a cloud runtime with durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing capabilities.

- Develop infrastructure for coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code in production.

- Design observability across integrations and agents, including logs, metrics, and tracing.

- Deliver a single-tenant, self-hostable product deployment and own the infrastructure platform end to end.

- Set engineering patterns for future infrastructure hires, ship production improvements regularly, and help hire and lead the team as it grows.

### What We're Looking For

- Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments.

- Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.

- Practical cloud infrastructure experience, production observability expertise across logs, metrics, and tracing, and familiarity with Kubernetes, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.

- Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.

- A completed or in-progress degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.

- Experience as a funded startup founder or as an engineer at an early-stage, well-backed startup; experience with self-hosted, single-tenant deployments is valuable.

- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available to work on-site five days a week, or US-based with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.

### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available, including O-1 sponsorship where appropriate.

### Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.