Founding DevOps Engineer
Clera · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
As the founding DevOps Engineer at an early-stage personal AI company, you will build the operational platform that enables a small engineering team to ship frequently and keep a trusted product reliable. You will establish the infrastructure, security, and incident response practices that support the product as it grows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, defining environments as code so engineers can provision and remove them reliably.
- 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 surface issues early.
- Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response practices, and lead postmortems that reduce repeat issues.
- Implement security controls, including secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency scanning, audit logs, and infrastructure supporting privacy commitments.
- Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
- Set platform standards and help hire engineers as the team grows.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibilities.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
- A track record of building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling that support frequent, reliable releases.
- Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud infrastructure ownership, and security practices such as IAM and vulnerability scanning.
- Ability to write TypeScript or Python and work with application code in production systems.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, with the judgment to verify and take ownership of shipped code.
- A hands-on, founding-team mindset, with experience in cost monitoring, capacity planning, and helping teams adopt infrastructure practices.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California.