Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

Clera

$175K — $300K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a high-growth startup
  • Experience with observability pipelines for production systems
  • Proficient in Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
  • Strong backend development skills in TypeScript and PostgreSQL
  • Ability to own complex problems independently
  • Interest or experience in agentic systems or developer tooling is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the runtime platform for integration workloads
  • Build and scale agent infrastructure for coding agents
  • Design and maintain observability across integrations and agents
  • Establish engineering foundations for future infrastructure hires
  • Ship to production constantly, collaborating with the founding team
  • Grow into a leadership role within the infrastructure team

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Work in an early-stage, innovative company
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact from day one
  • Potential to grow into a leadership position within a year
  • Collaboration with founding team members in a startup environment
Full 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.

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