CleraNew

Founding Engineer, Infrastructure

  • LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
  • Listed22/10/2026
  • SalaryUS$175–300k/yr
  • FieldSoftware engineering

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About the job

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team as its first infrastructure engineer, owning the runtime, agent infrastructure, observability, and self-hosted deployment experience. You will work closely with the founding team, establish the platform patterns for future hires, and have a path toward leading this domain.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Build and operate a cloud runtime for integrations, including durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and resilient recovery.
  • Develop infrastructure for coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code in production.
  • Design observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for integrations and agents.
  • Build and maintain single-tenant, self-hostable product deployments.
  • Own infrastructure and platform decisions end to end, and establish engineering practices for future infrastructure hires.
  • Ship production systems regularly and help grow the team responsible for this area.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment.
  • Production experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
  • Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience and a strong understanding of production observability across logs, metrics, and tracing.
  • Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.
  • Experience building self-hosted, single-tenant product deployments is valuable.
  • A completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree and strong technical fundamentals.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $175,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

On-site five days per week in San Francisco, California. Candidates based elsewhere in the United States must have a concrete plan to relocate to San Francisco.

Job details

Company
Clera
Work model
On-site
Contract
Full time
Posted
22 October 2026
Advert site
jobs.ashbyhq.com

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