Clera
macOS DevOps / Founding Engineer
About this role
A founding engineer role on the macOS DevOps team at a venture-backed AI infrastructure startup in San Francisco. You'll design, build, and operate macOS data center infrastructure at scale while developing automation tooling in Swift and shell scripting to support production AI systems.
What you'll do
- Maintain and operate macOS data center infrastructure at scale
- Build automation, deployment, and monitoring systems for infrastructure reliability
- Develop automation tooling using Swift and bash/zsh scripting
- Manage CI/CD pipelines and developer infrastructure end-to-end
- Troubleshoot systems and infrastructure issues with strong debugging skills
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support development and production workflows
What they're looking for
- Swift (required)
- Shell scripting (bash/zsh)
- macOS systems administration at scale
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Infrastructure monitoring and deployment
- Networking and system performance tuning
- Linux systems experience
- Reliability engineering and debugging
Benefits
- Salary: $150,000–$200,000 annually
- Equity participation as a founding team member
- High-impact, early-stage role with significant ownership
- Work on production-grade AI infrastructure
- On-site position in San Francisco
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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.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Tell us about your experience building or operating macOS data center infrastructure at scale—what were the key challenges?
- Swift is core to this role. Walk us through a complex automation project you've built in Swift and how you approached maintainability.