Founding Infra Engineer — Build a Self-Hosted Cloud Runtime

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership track with equity

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

Clera is hiring the first infrastructure engineer in San Francisco, reporting to the CTO, with a clear leadership track from day one. You will own the runtime, agent infrastructure, and self-hostable story, setting patterns for all future infra hires.

Expect to lead observability, design foundational patterns, and, within ~12 months, grow the team to own the infrastructure domain. Visa sponsorship is available for this on-site role.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience at a high-growth startup
• Experience designing and implementing observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) for production systems
• Hands-on proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
• Strong command of TypeScript and comfort working with PostgreSQL
• Track record of owning infrastructure end-to-end
• Founding-level engineer with high ownership and direct communication with leadership

Responsibilities

• Own a mini cloud platform — build and maintain a durable execution runtime with sandboxed isolation and self-healing capabilities
• Build agent infrastructure — design, ship, and scale systems that run coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code in production
• Deliver full observability — design and implement observability pipelines across every integration and agent, packaged as a single-tenant, self-hostable product
• Set foundational engineering patterns — make architectural decisions that the entire future infrastructure team will build upon
• Hire and grow the team — participate in recruiting and, within ~12 months, transition into leading the infrastructure domain
• Ship constantly — operate as a peer to the founders; work fast and get things to production regularly

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Observability pipelines

Job description

Clera is hiring the first infrastructure engineer in San Francisco, reporting to the CTO, with a clear leadership track from day one. You will own the runtime, agent infrastructure, and self-hostable story, setting patterns for all future infra hires.

Expect to lead observability, design foundational patterns, and, within ~12 months, grow the team to own the infrastructure domain. Visa sponsorship is available for this on-site role.