Clera

Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

San Mateo
Level
Senior
Work type
On-site · San Mateo
Visa
Sponsors visas

Not stated in the posting: salary.

Open. First seen 28 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI infrastructure company as its founding cloud infrastructure engineer. You will design and build the cloud systems behind a platform that helps enterprise AI agents use reliable, governed business context.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build production cloud infrastructure from the ground up, guiding architecture through deployment and scaling.
  • Own infrastructure decisions and establish standards and practices for a growing engineering team.
  • Build and operate Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms and infrastructure-as-code systems.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and logging.
  • Design secure cloud networking, access controls, and database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems.
  • Support data infrastructure and pipelines that power the platform.

What We're Looking For

  • Five or more years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with roughly 5 to 12 years of overall experience.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
  • Production experience architecting and managing Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform.
  • Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure observability and logging, cloud security, and access control.
  • Experience designing database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems at scale.
  • Comfort building from scratch in an early-stage or high-growth environment, with a stable work history and full-time availability.
  • Experience with data infrastructure, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI/ML platforms is helpful.

Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available. Salary and equity details were not provided.

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.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 210 open in Engineering. 144 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 (103 of 210), TypeScript (95 of 210), Python (82 of 210), React (81 of 210), Machine Learning (42 of 210), PostgreSQL (39 of 210), JavaScript (36 of 210)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Other openings for this role

5 postings for this role in San Mateo since 29 September 2026, 1 still open. None has been taken down and posted again.

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