Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the implementation and ensure technical excellence across cloud platform initiatives.

• Establish infrastructure standards, perform design and code reviews, and provide guidance on architectural choices.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to shape the cloud platform roadmap.

• Promote a culture centered around ownership, quality, automation, and continuous enhancement.

• Architect, construct, and manage scalable AWS infrastructure utilizing Infrastructure as Code.

• Develop and sustain Kubernetes-based platforms, including EKS, and facilitate container workflows for application teams.

• Create self-service tools and streamlined processes that empower teams to deploy and manage services securely.

• Ensure the platform consistently supports both application and data workloads effectively.

• Design platform functionalities with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Enhance cloud systems for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.

• Detect and mitigate infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling limitations, and reliability vulnerabilities.

• Establish reliability protocols, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response strategies.

• Advance observability, maintainability, and operational readiness across cloud platform services.

• Collaborate with backend, SRE, data, autonomy, and security teams to deliver integrated platform features.

• Support comprehensive system design from edge devices to cloud infrastructure.

• Coordinate with various teams to develop and uphold release procedures and CI/CD pipelines.

• Assist in aligning platform functionalities with product, engineering, security, and mission requirements.

• Implement secure cloud practices, such as IAM least privilege, secrets management, encryption, and network segmentation.

• Uphold high standards for automation, testing, observability, documentation, and infrastructure reliability.

• Advocate for a DevSecOps culture by integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and the software development lifecycle.

• Enforce cloud security measures, vulnerability management, and continuous compliance monitoring.

• Ensure adherence to compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and DoD Impact Levels, including IL4 and IL5.

• Design systems with a focus on security, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure, DevOps, or equivalent engineering roles.

• Extensive knowledge of AWS core services, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed data services.

• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code.

• Practical experience managing Kubernetes, including EKS, and containerized environments.

• Significant experience in constructing CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments.

• Proficient in Go, Python, or similar programming languages for platform tooling and automation.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, distributed systems, and best practices in cloud security, including identity, encryption, and network security.

• Capability to drive projects from conception through to production.

• Strong technical judgment and the ability to work independently in dynamic environments.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance if necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% Employer-paid Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance for you and your families.

• Life Insurance (Employer Paid).

• Opportunity to participate in the company's 401k program (Matching).

• Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced minimum of 2 weeks.

• Equity Package.

• Work/Home Office Stipend.

• Global Entry.

• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave.

• Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend.