Founding Cloud Platform Engineer — Equity Eligible

Clera; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Clera is seeking a Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in San Mateo, CA to design and own the cloud infra powering our semantic AI platform. This is a build-from-scratch role with significant foundational impact and equity potential.

The role requires 5+ years in production cloud infra, strong IaC, Kubernetes, and cloud platform experience. You will shape architecture, build pipelines, and drive security and observability in a greenfield environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and operating cloud infrastructure in production
• Hands-on IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi)
• Experience architecting and managing Kubernetes clusters in production
• Deep experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with observability and logging tools
• Experience designing database infrastructure at scale
• Strong security, networking, and access control background
• Comfort in early-stage environments, setting standards rather than following playbooks
• Nice to Have: data infra, graph databases, ML infra, startup experience

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud infrastructure from the ground up to power a production-grade semantic AI platform
• Own the full lifecycle of infrastructure decisions from architecture to deployment and scaling
• Make foundational cloud decisions with long-term implications
• Establish best practices, standards, and tooling in a greenfield environment
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Implement infrastructure monitoring, observability, and logging systems
• Design and manage database infra across relational and NoSQL systems at scale
• Implement infrastructure security, networking, and access control frameworks
• Collaborate with founding team to define scalable, secure foundations in a fast-moving startup environment

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi)

AWS/GCP/Azure

CI/CD

Observability tools

Security

Networking

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Prometheus/ELK/Datadog/New Relic

Job description

Clera is seeking a Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in San Mateo, CA to design and own the cloud infra powering our semantic AI platform. This is a build-from-scratch role with significant foundational impact and equity potential.

The role requires 5+ years in production cloud infra, strong IaC, Kubernetes, and cloud platform experience. You will shape architecture, build pipelines, and drive security and observability in a greenfield environment.