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Clera

Founding Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco$175k–$300kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join a seed-stage agentic integration platform as the first infrastructure engineer, owning the runtime, agent systems, and self-hostable product from day one with a clear path to leading the infrastructure team within a year.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain a durable execution runtime with sandboxed isolation and self-healing capabilities
  • Build agent infrastructure systems that enable coding agents to write, test, and deploy integration code in production
  • Architect and implement observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) across integrations and agents
  • Establish foundational engineering patterns and architectural decisions for the infrastructure domain
  • Actively participate in recruiting and transition into leading the infrastructure team within ~12 months
  • Ship features and improvements to production regularly in a fast-paced startup environment

What they're looking for

  • Kubernetes and Docker containerization
  • AWS cloud infrastructure
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL databases
  • Observability and monitoring (logs, metrics, tracing)
  • End-to-end infrastructure design and evolution
  • Durable execution and sandboxed code execution (nice to have)
  • Self-hostable/single-tenant product deployment (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Leadership track with direct ownership and equity participation
  • Direct collaboration with CTO and founding team
  • Opportunity to define engineering culture and patterns from the ground up
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • High autonomy and low-ceremony environment
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Clera

Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you owned infrastructure end-to-end at a high-growth startup—what did you design, build, and iterate on?
  • Describe your experience designing observability pipelines for production systems. What tools did you use and what challenges did you solve?
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