# Founding Engineer - Infrastructure - Company: [Clera]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $175K – $300K - Posted: September 10, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is the first infrastructure hire at a seed-stage gig economy and flexible staffing platform, working directly with the CTO on a clear path to leading the infra domain. You will own the full runtime and platform layer from day one, setting the patterns every future infrastructure engineer builds on. ### What You'll Do * Own and evolve the integration runtime platform: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing behavior. * Build and operate the agent infrastructure that runs coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code at production scale. * Design and ship full observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for every integration and agent workflow. * Deliver a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment of the platform as a standalone product. * Set the foundational engineering patterns the growing infrastructure team will inherit. * Work as a peer to the founders, shipping to production constantly and helping hire the team you will eventually lead. ### What We're Looking For * 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years in fast-moving, ambiguous environments at a high-growth startup. * Background at a startup backed by a top-tier venture firm or comparable high-growth environment; big-tech-only backgrounds are not a strong fit for this role. * Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production. * End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform, rather than contributing to a larger team's system. * Cloud infrastructure focus (not primarily data infrastructure). * Experience designing observability systems spanning logs, metrics, and distributed tracing. * Comfortable using AI coding agents as a productivity tool while applying strong production-quality engineering judgment. * Bonus: experience building self-hostable or single-tenant product deployments. * Strong computer science fundamentals from a rigorous academic background. ### Compensation & Benefits Base salary: **$175,000 to $300,000 USD annually.** Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path. ### Location On-site, five days a week in **San Francisco, CA, United States.** Candidates based elsewhere in the US with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco are also considered. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: