Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

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

- Design and build cloud infrastructure from the ground up, taking systems from initial architecture through deployment and scale.

- Make foundational decisions about cloud architecture and establish infrastructure standards and best practices.

- Build and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions.

- Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and logging systems.

- Design and maintain secure cloud networking, access controls, and database infrastructure.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Approximately 5 to 12 years of experience, including at least 5 years building and operating production cloud infrastructure.

- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, storage, compute, and managed services.

- Production experience architecting and managing Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.

- Experience implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar tools.

- Background building and operating cloud or data infrastructure, with experience in CI/CD, observability, security, and access control.

- Experience designing database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems at scale.

- Comfort making architectural decisions and building from scratch in an early-stage or high-growth environment, with a stable employment history.

- Experience with data pipelines, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI and machine learning infrastructure is beneficial.

- Seeking full-time employment.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

On-site in San Mateo, California, United States.

See the posting on Clera's site