Founding DevOps Engineer

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Clera
Full time
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USA
10/16/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute using infrastructure as code.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rollback capabilities.
Design and operate observability systems for logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, incident response processes, and postmortems.
Implement security controls for secrets, access, dependencies, audit logs, and privacy commitments.
Monitor costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce infrastructure waste.
Set operational standards and help build the engineering team.

Requirements

At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibility.
Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
Experience building high-velocity deployment tooling, observability systems, and incident response practices.
Practical security experience with secrets management, least-privilege access, IAM, network boundaries, dependency scanning, audit logs, and SOC 2 work.
Ability to write TypeScript or Python and understand the application code being deployed.
Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and the judgment to verify and own shipped work.
Hands-on founding-team mindset and enthusiasm for setting standards in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

Salary range of $200,000 to $300,000 annually.
On-site work in San Francisco, California.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $200k - $300k/yr

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