Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
- Remote (anywhere)
- Full-time
- Software engineering
- Posted recently
You’ll apply on Clera’s own site.
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI infrastructure team as its founding cloud infrastructure engineer. You will build the production cloud foundation for a platform that helps organizations provide reliable, governed context to AI systems.
What You’ll Do
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Design and build cloud infrastructure from the ground up, taking systems from initial architecture through deployment and scale.
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Make foundational decisions about cloud architecture and establish infrastructure standards and best practices.
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Build and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
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Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and logging systems.
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Design and maintain secure cloud networking, access controls, and database infrastructure.
What We’re Looking For
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Approximately 5 to 12 years of experience, including at least 5 years building and operating production cloud infrastructure.
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Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, storage, compute, and managed services.
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Production experience architecting and managing Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
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Experience implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar tools.
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Background building and operating cloud or data infrastructure, with experience in CI/CD, observability, security, and access control.
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Experience designing database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems at scale.
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Comfort making architectural decisions and building from scratch in an early-stage or high-growth environment, with a stable employment history.
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Experience with data pipelines, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI and machine learning infrastructure is beneficial.
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Seeking full-time employment.
Compensation & Benefits
Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Mateo, California, United States.