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# Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

- **Company:** CLERA, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, PostgreSQL, Cloud Services, Next.js, Cloud Platform System, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Kubernetes, Docker
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=34d214273c5495c4

## About the Role

Required

 * 3+ years of hands-on infrastructure or platform engineering experience at a high-growth startup or equivalent fast-paced environment.
 * Production Kubernetes experience - deployment, day-to-day operations, and debugging at 2 a.m.
 * Track record of owning infrastructure or a platform end-to-end, not merely contributing to one.
 * Experience building or operating self-hosted, single-tenant deployment architectures.
 * Proficiency in TypeScript development.
 * Hands-on experience deploying and scaling PostgreSQL.
 * Solid working knowledge of AWS cloud services.
 * Docker / containerized environment experience.
 * Ability and willingness to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area (relocation support available).
 * Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; comfortable working directly with founders.

Nice to Have

 * Experience with agentic systems, LLM orchestration, or AI-driven developer tooling.
 * Background in integration platforms, workflow engines, or durable execution frameworks (e.g., Temporal).
 * Prior experience hiring or leading a small infrastructure team.

## Description

This is the first infrastructure hire at a fast-moving agentic integration platform building for the real economy. You'll work directly with the CTO as a true peer and founding team member - owning the entire infrastructure and platform layer from day one, with a clear path to leading the infra team within roughly 12 months.

Think of the core product as a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing systems - plus the agent infrastructure and observability story that ties it all together., * Build and own the integration runtime platform - durable execution, sandboxed isolation, self-healing behaviour (think: a Vercel-style platform purpose-built for integration workloads).

 * Own the agent infrastructure - coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code, running reliably at scale in production.
 * Deliver full observability across every integration and agent run, including a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment path for enterprise customers.
 * Set the engineering patterns that every future infrastructure hire builds on.
 * Participate in infra-related hiring and grow into leading the team that owns this domain.
 * Ship to production constantly, collaborating closely with founders and engineering peers.


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