Founding Engineer – Infrastructure
at Clera · 1-10 employees
Seed · $3M · Apr 2026
- Seniority
- Director Plus
- Work model
- Onsite
- Employment
- Full Time
- Location
- San Francisco
- Posted
- 5d ago
typescriptpostgresawskubernetesdockerllm
at Clera · 1-10 employees
Clera is a talent-matching platform that replaces traditional job applications by connecting candidates and hiring teams through curated introductions.
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.