# Founding Engineer - Infrastructure - Company: [Clera]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $175K – $300K - Posted: August 26, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is the first infrastructure hire at an early-stage agentic integration platform, working directly with the CTO on a leadership track. You'll own the full infra and platform layer from day one — and grow into leading the team that builds it. The work sits at the intersection of durable execution, agent infrastructure, and self-hostable deployment. ### What You'll Do * Own and evolve the runtime platform: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing infrastructure — essentially a mini cloud for integration workloads. * Build and scale agent infrastructure that enables coding agents to write, test, and deploy integration code in production. * Design and maintain full observability across every integration and agent (logs, metrics, traces), and ship it as a single-tenant, self-hostable product. * Set the engineering patterns and foundations that every future infrastructure hire will build on. * Ship to production constantly, operating as a peer to the founding team. * Help grow and eventually lead the infrastructure team within approximately one year. ### What We're Looking For * 3+ years of engineering experience, ideally at a high-growth startup in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment. * Proven experience designing and implementing observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) for production systems. * Hands-on proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS. * Strong backend skills in TypeScript and PostgreSQL. * Comfort owning ambiguous, high-scope problems with minimal direction. * Interest in or experience with agentic systems, integration platforms, or developer tooling is a plus. ### Compensation & Benefits Salary range: **$175,000 – $300,000 USD** annually. Visa sponsorship is available. ### Location On-site in **San Francisco, CA, United States**. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: