macOS DevOps / Founding Engineer
Clera · San Francisco, California, United States · $150K–$200K/yr
Technology, Information and Internet · 2-10 employees
About the role
You will be responsible for building, operating, and scaling macOS data center infrastructure to support AI agent messaging platforms. This includes developing automation tooling, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring high system reliability and performance.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires proven experience in macOS DevOps and strong proficiency in Swift, shell scripting, and infrastructure automation. Candidates must be able to work on-site in San Francisco and possess strong systems-level debugging and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
Full description
About the Role
We're a venture-backed AI messaging infrastructure startup building production-grade systems that power AI agents across popular messaging platforms. As a founding macOS DevOps Engineer (mid-level Member of Technical Staff), you'll be a core member of a small, high-impact team responsible for building, operating, and scaling macOS data center infrastructure in San Francisco.
This is an on-site, founding-team role — you'll have significant ownership over the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of systems that developers and production workloads depend on every day.
What You'll Do
- Maintain and operate macOS data center infrastructure at scale.
- Build and continuously improve automation, deployment, and monitoring systems.
- Develop automation tooling using Swift and shell scripting (bash/zsh).
- Manage CI/CD pipelines and developer infrastructure.
- Ensure high levels of system reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems and infrastructure issues.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to support development and production workflows.
- Drive improvements in DevOps practices and operational excellence across the organization.
What We're Looking For
Required:
- Proven experience in macOS DevOps — building and delivering production macOS data center infrastructure.
- Strong proficiency in Swift (required; this is a dealbreaker).
- Solid experience with shell scripting (bash/zsh) and infrastructure automation.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, deployment, and infrastructure management.
- macOS systems administration at scale — installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Linux systems and tooling.
- Understanding of networking concepts, system performance tuning, and reliability engineering.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at the systems level.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and reliable automation code.
Nice to Have:
- Experience managing macOS fleets or data center environments.
- Familiarity with MDM management tools (e.g., Jamf).
- Knowledge of low-level macOS internals or system frameworks.
- Experience with Rust or Objective-C.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 USD annually
- Early-stage equity as a founding team member
- Visa sponsorship: Not available
Location
This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position.
