# Founding Software Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage AI company building cloud infrastructure and backend systems that turn robotics research into reliable, production-grade products. This generalist role is backend-focused, with ownership across architecture, infrastructure, and customer-facing web experiences. What You'll Do Design and deploy cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure using infrastructure as code and automated deployments. Build serverless APIs, containerized services, background jobs, and event-driven workflows, optimizing for latency, throughput, reliability, and cost. Implement authentication, authorization, API keys, OAuth/OIDC, role-based access controls, tenant isolation, and secrets management. Model and manage relational databases, object storage, and caches, including indexing, migrations, retention, backups, and recovery. Build pipelines to ingest and process sensor streams, 3D spatial data, telemetry, and model outputs, including edge-to-cloud connectivity. Develop product services and web experiences for organizations, projects, devices, configuration, onboarding, access management, and monitoring. Establish production practices for CI/CD, automated testing,

- **Id**: 3996337
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-software-engineer-16>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T23:01:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:20:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2262
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T01:20:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T02:24:01Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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