Founding Engineer, Infrastructure
CleraOn-site - San Francisco, California, United StatesPosted 2026-10-30
- This listing's locations
- On-site - San Francisco, California, United States
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- On site
- Compensation
- USD 175000–300000 per year
Department: Engineering
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About the Role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team as its first infrastructure hire, owning the runtime, agent infrastructure, observability, and self-hostable deployment platform. You will work closely with the founders, establish foundational engineering practices, and help grow the infrastructure team.
What You'll Do
- Build and operate a cloud runtime with durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing capabilities.
- Develop infrastructure for coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code in production.
- Design observability across integrations and agents, including logs, metrics, and tracing.
- Deliver a single-tenant, self-hostable product deployment and own the infrastructure platform end to end.
- Set engineering patterns for future infrastructure hires, ship production improvements regularly, and help hire and lead the team as it grows.
What We're Looking For
- Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments.
- Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
- Practical cloud infrastructure experience, production observability expertise across logs, metrics, and tracing, and familiarity with Kubernetes, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.
- Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.
- A completed or in-progress degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.
- Experience as a funded startup founder or as an engineer at an early-stage, well-backed startup; experience with self-hosted, single-tenant deployments is valuable.
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available to work on-site five days a week, or US-based with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available, including O-1 sponsorship where appropriate.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.