Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Clera

  • San Mateo, California
  • 16 days ago

    Highlights

    Design secure cloud networking, access controls, and database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems. Experience with data infrastructure, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI/ML platforms is helpful.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Mateo, California

    Description

    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.

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