Job Overview
Job description
- Salary:
- USD 150,000 - 200,000 per year
- Location:
- San Francisco, United States
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to own the interface through which the world interacts with distributed systems. This isn't just another dashboard — it's an entire OS for managing Kubernetes infrastructure. Think of the innovation that gave us the mouse, the cursor, the window close button: those sparks reframed our relationship with hardware and made it accessible to everyone. The personal cluster revolution needs that same level of frontend thinking. You'll be an early engineering team member helping shape how developers and small teams manage production clusters — making something complex feel intuitive and powerful.
Also required
- Experience working with APIs and backend services.
- Background in systems programming or distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Build responsive, high-performance interfaces that work equally well for individual developers and small teams managing production Kubernetes clusters.
- Prototype new interaction patterns for infrastructure management, test assumptions quickly, and iterate based on real feedback.
- Establish frontend architecture patterns and practices as a foundational member of the engineering team.
- Collaborate with backend engineers, working with APIs and backend services to surface real-time infrastructure state in the UI.
- Implement UI animations and data visualizations that translate complex distributed systems concepts into clear, actionable interfaces.
Requirements
Required (dealbreakers)
- Demonstrated experience defining and establishing frontend architecture.
- 2+ years of software development experience.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Track record shipping user-facing infrastructure or developer tools.
- Experience with complex state management for systems reflecting real-world distributed infrastructure.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana or similar monitoring/visualization platforms.
- Experience designing and implementing UI animations.
- Comfort contributing to backend code in at least one backend language.
- Experience with GitOps workflows or infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Frontend testing experience — unit, integration, and end-to-end — and test automation.
- Familiarity with WebSockets, real-time data streaming, or visualization libraries.
- Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 USD annually
- Visa sponsorship is available.
This is a fully on-site role based in San Francisco, CA. Candidates must be willing to work in-office.
- Role:
- Frontend Engineer
- Job Type:
- FullTime
Company profile
clera
getclera.comClera, legally Clera Labs, Inc., is an AI talent agent that connects job seekers directly with hiring managers at high-growth startups funded by investors such as a16z, Index, YC and GC. Instead of relying on mass applications, Clera learns what a person has done and wants next, then introduces them to the person who needs exactly that, and it shows candidates where they rank against people with comparable experience. The company began in a hacker house in Medellín and was co-founded by Alexander Farr, Sebastian Scott and Daniel Wintermeyer.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Founded
- 2025
- Founders
- Sebastian Scott, Alexander Farr, Daniel Wintermeyer