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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$160k–$270kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join a well-funded early-stage infrastructure startup as a Founding Engineer to build a graph-native context and memory platform for AI workloads. You'll own core systems including query execution, storage layers, and distributed components while working directly with the founding team to shape long-term architecture and product direction.

What you'll do

  • Design and ship core infrastructure components: query engines, graph storage layers, and distributed systems
  • Make architectural decisions with lasting product impact in collaboration with founding team
  • Contribute to benchmarking and research work that defines the technical category
  • Lead architecture reviews and manage complex technical trade-offs with production consequences
  • Help establish engineering standards and mentor the team as it scales
  • Own large, ambiguous problems from conception through production deployment

What they're looking for

  • Rust or Go proficiency
  • Distributed systems design and implementation
  • Query engine or storage layer architecture
  • Graph database internals
  • Computer science fundamentals and first-principles thinking
  • Production systems at scale
  • System design and technical documentation
  • Database or infrastructure engineering

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity ownership in the company
  • Competitive salary with significant upside
  • Free daily meals and wellness programs
  • Top-tier hardware and software tools
  • Flexible PTO and learning budget for conferences and courses
  • Periodic team offsites and collaborative culture
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Clera

Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a core infrastructure component you shipped in production—what were the biggest architectural challenges and how did you resolve them?
  • Describe your experience building distributed systems: what failure modes have you encountered and how did you address them?
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