Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- On-site · San Mateo
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Not stated in the posting: salary.
Open. First seen 6 October 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join an early-stage team building an enterprise AI platform that helps AI systems use accurate, governed business context. As the founding cloud infrastructure engineer, you will establish the infrastructure foundation and make architectural decisions that support the platform as it grows.
What You'll Do
- Design and build cloud infrastructure from the ground up, owning decisions from architecture through deployment and scaling.
- Architect and operate production Kubernetes clusters and infrastructure-as-code deployments.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and systems for monitoring, observability, and logging.
- Design database infrastructure and implement cloud networking, security, and access controls.
- Establish infrastructure standards and practices in an early-stage environment, with opportunities to work on data pipelines and AI infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
- At least 5 years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with roughly 5 to 12 years of overall experience.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
- Background in database infrastructure, relational and NoSQL systems, security, CI/CD, and infrastructure observability.
- Comfort making architectural decisions and building systems from scratch in a startup environment. Data infrastructure, graph systems, or machine learning infrastructure experience is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Mateo, California, United States.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
CloudFormation · NoSQL · Pulumi
Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
AWS · Azure · CI/CD · GCP · Kubernetes · Terraform
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
Read against Clera's other open postings on this site.
Other openings for this role
3 open postings for this role in San Mateo, first posted 29 September 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 13 October 2026 – open
- 6 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 29 September 2026 – open
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