macOS DevOps / Founding Engineer

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early-stage equity as founding team

Job summary

Clera is seeking a founding macOS DevOps Engineer to build and operate production macOS data center infrastructure in San Francisco. You will own reliability, automation, and scaling efforts in a tight-knit team.

The role focuses on macOS fleet operations, automation tooling with Swift, and CI/CD workflows. This on-site opportunity includes early-stage equity for a founder-level contributor and excludes visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in macOS DevOps — building and delivering production macOS data center infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in Swift (required; this is a dealbreaker).
• Solid experience with shell scripting (bash/zsh) and infrastructure automation.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure management.
• macOS systems administration at scale — installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Linux systems and tooling.
• Understanding of networking concepts, system performance tuning, and reliability engineering.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at the systems level.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and reliable automation code.
• Nice to Have: experience managing macOS fleets; Jamf; low-level macOS internals; Rust or Objective-C.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate macOS data center infrastructure at scale.
• Build and continuously improve automation, deployment, and monitoring systems.
• Develop automation tooling using Swift and shell scripting (bash/zsh).
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and developer infrastructure.
• Ensure high levels of system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems and infrastructure issues.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to support development and production workflows.
• Drive improvements in DevOps practices and operational excellence across the organization.

Skills

macOS DevOps

Swift

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Debugging

Automation coding

Tools

Jamf

Rust

Job description

About the Role

We're a venture-backed AI messaging infrastructure startup building production-grade systems that power AI agents across popular messaging platforms. As a founding macOS DevOps Engineer (mid-level Member of Technical Staff), you'll be a core member of a small, high-impact team responsible for building, operating, and scaling macOS data center infrastructure in San Francisco.

This is an on-site, founding-team role — you'll have significant ownership over the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of systems that developers and production workloads depend on every day.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain and operate macOS data center infrastructure at scale.

• Build and continuously improve automation, deployment, and monitoring systems.

• Develop automation tooling using Swift and shell scripting (bash/zsh).

• Manage CI/CD pipelines and developer infrastructure.

• Ensure high levels of system reliability, performance, and scalability.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems and infrastructure issues.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to support development and production workflows.

• Drive improvements in DevOps practices and operational excellence across the organization.

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Proven experience in macOS DevOps — building and delivering production macOS data center infrastructure.

• Strong proficiency in Swift (required; this is a dealbreaker).

• Solid experience with shell scripting (bash/zsh) and infrastructure automation.

• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure management.

• macOS systems administration at scale — installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with Linux systems and tooling.

• Understanding of networking concepts, system performance tuning, and reliability engineering.

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at the systems level.

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and reliable automation code.

Nice to Have:

• Experience managing macOS fleets or data center environments.

• Familiarity with MDM management tools (e.g., Jamf).

• Knowledge of low-level macOS internals or system frameworks.

• Experience with Rust or Objective-C.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 USD annually

• Early-stage equity as a founding team member

• Visa sponsorship: Not available

Location

This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position.