Staff Cloud Engineer

Summary

Join a high-growth company as a Staff Cloud Engineer and be a key contributor to transforming how businesses operate. This role offers the chance to work on industry-disrupting projects and scale a business handling millions of daily events. You will play a vital role in shaping the architecture and features of our cloud platform, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Kafka, and DevOps. The ideal candidate possesses strong cloud engineering expertise, leadership skills, and a passion for continuous learning. This position provides an opportunity to work with a talented team and contribute to a rapidly expanding business.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years experience in a high level programming language (TypeScript, Python, Go, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of building and managing web services using REST
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
• Passionate for continuous learning and understanding things in and around cloud development
• Experience leading teams or projects
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
• Experience building event driven architectures using Kafka
• Experience with high availability deployment across multiple regions and availability zones
• Experience with observability tools such as DataDog, SumoLogic, and/or CloudWatch
• Deep experience with Git
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative, and iterative development environment
• Ability to lead and define cloud initiatives with other engineers
• Experience working with a highly reactive platform
• Experience with establishing, promoting, and ensuring best practices in Cloud code bases including common architectures and standardized unit/integration testing
• Experience building reusable libraries, SDKs, and shared components used by many applications

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure cloud services
• Participate in code reviews and other technical discussions to maintain high-quality code and infrastructure
• Work with cloud developers, product managers and designers to guide and make technical decisions throughout the development process
• Mentor other developers and contractors throughout the development lifecycle
• Prototype unproven concepts to inform final implementations
• Stay on top of cloud trends and topics
• Automate everything possible; leverage CI/CD to automate repeatable tasks and quality checks
• Manage and support engineering teams' software release processes
• Build the tools, processes, and support for teams to be able to self-manage in an owner-operator model
• Manage Infrastructure as Code

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous startup experience
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with AI, ML, or AR
• Experience working with multiple AWS accounts
• Experience with Docker container development and hosting
• Experience with growing large teams and understanding the issues that arise with growth
• Experience with Serverless architectures

Benefits

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