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Founding DevOps Engineer

Clera

Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)

Base salary $200K  to $300K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA
  • WorkplaceOn-site
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

About the Role

As the founding DevOps engineer at a seed-stage AI productivity startup, you'll build and own the operational platform that enables a small engineering team to ship frequently and reliably. You'll help protect a product that handles users' communications, schedules, and sensitive information while setting the infrastructure and operational standards for future growth.

What You'll Do

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, using infrastructure as code to make environments easy to create and remove.

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.

  • Design and operate observability systems for logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.

  • Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response processes, and lead postmortems that prevent recurring issues.

  • 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.

What We're Looking For

  • 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, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.

  • Experience building high-velocity CI/CD and deployment tooling, plus observability systems and incident response practices.

  • Practical security experience, including 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 you deploy.

  • Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and the judgment to verify and own shipped work.

  • A hands-on, founding-team mindset and enthusiasm for setting standards in a fast-moving environment.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Founding DevOps Engineer (this listing)$200K - $300K
Founding Product Engineer$200K - $250K
Senior Silicon Engineer$200K - $300K
Founding Engineer$200K - $300K
Founding Enterprise Account Executive$200K - $250K
Founding Engineering Lead$200K - $400K
Founding Product Engineer$200K - $250K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Clera roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-10-15
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Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco

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

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