Founding DevOps Engineer — Build Scalable Infra & CI/CD

Clera

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 300,000

Full time

43 hours ago

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Job summary

Clera is seeking a founding DevOps engineer to own the operational platform and enable a small engineering team to ship frequently and reliably. You will protect user data and help set infrastructure standards for growth.

Responsibilities include owning cloud infrastructure, building fast CI/CD pipelines, and designing robust observability, security, and incident response practices. This on-site role in San Francisco requires a hands-on, founding-team mindset.

Qualifications

4+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform infra with on-call experience.
Hands-on with a major cloud platform, IaC (Terraform or Pulumi), containers, orchestration.
Experience building high-velocity CI/CD and observability systems.
Security experience: secrets management, least-privilege, IAM, audit logs, SOC 2.
Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand deployed app code.
Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and ownership.
Founding-team mindset and ability to set standards in fast-moving env.

Responsibilities

Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute; use IaC to simplify environments.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.
Design and operate observability systems for logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response, and postmortems to prevent recurring issues.
Implement security controls for secrets, access, dependencies, audit logs, and privacy commitments.
Monitor costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce infrastructure waste.
Set operational standards and help build the engineering team.