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Clera

Founding DevOps Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$200,000 - $300,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 14 October 2026.

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Pulumi

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles

CI/CD · Python · Terraform

Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.

Read against Clera's other open postings on this site.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 292 open in Engineering. 226 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (135 of 292), TypeScript (131 of 292), Python (123 of 292), React (107 of 292), Machine Learning (70 of 292), PostgreSQL (58 of 292), JavaScript (55 of 292)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

About the role

About the Role

As the founding DevOps engineer at an early-stage AI assistant company, you will build and own the operational platform behind a fast-moving product. Your work will help the team deploy frequently while keeping production systems secure, reliable, and resilient.

What You'll Do

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, managing environments through infrastructure as code.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.
  • Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems that help identify issues early.
  • Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response practices, and postmortems that reduce repeat incidents.
  • Implement security controls for secrets, access, dependencies, audit logs, and privacy requirements.
  • Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and improve efficiency.
  • Set platform standards and help grow the engineering team.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including production on-call work.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
  • A track record building CI/CD and deployment tooling for frequent, reliable releases.
  • Experience with observability, incident response, security practices, and compliance work such as SOC 2.
  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand the application code you deploy.
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows, and the judgment to verify and take ownership of shipped work.
  • A hands-on, founding-team mindset and interest in setting platform standards.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

Other openings for this role

3 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 14 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

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