Role overview

Staff Engineer Cloud Scalability

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities:

  • Lead capacity planning, autoscaling, and performance optimization across our application.

Responsibilities:

  • Define and enforce best practices for scalability, reliability, observability, and infrastructure resilience.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct architectural reviews and propose improvements to enhance performance and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with engineering teams on the implementation of micro service infrastructure (API gateways, containerization strategies, etc.) with an eye toward data contract and scalability best practices.
  • Implement and improve metrics systems to diagnose performance bottlenecks using modern tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, Splunk).
  • Partner with engineering teams to help enforce SLOs/SLAs.
  • Lead incident response initiatives for high-severity cloud infrastructure issues.
  • Provide solutions to enable production teams to measure and predict cloud costs against resource utilization.
  • Candidates would be expected to participate periodically in an on-call, production assistance and escalation schedule
  • Candidates are expected to have some level of competency in using LLM tools (e.g. Claude Code, etc.).

Qualifications:

  • Minimal 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.

Qualifications:

  • Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or commensurateexperience..

Qualifications:

  • Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation).

Qualifications:

  • Deep familiarity with AWS native services, particularly: ECS, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, KMS, RDS and LZA configuration.

Qualifications:

  • Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.

Qualifications:

  • Strong scripting / automation experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).

Qualifications:

  • Experience in designing or using profiling tools and performance test frameworks (e.g. AppDynamics, Jaeger, VisualVM, etc.).

Qualifications:

  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, caching, event-driven architecture, and performance tuning.

Qualifications:

  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (BitBucket, GitHub, Jenkins).

Qualifications:

  • Excellent problem-solving and diagnostic abilities in large-scale distributed environments.

Qualifications:

  • Experience in high-traffic, globally distributed environments.
  • Experience with zero-downtime migrations and multi-region deployments.
  • Must be a US citizen or green card holder.

Attributes:

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Attributes:

  • Self-directed, capable of working with multiple, small engineering teams.

Attributes:

  • AWS Professional certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).

Attributes:

  • High-level of integrity and a keen sense of urgency and results orientation.

Attributes:

  • Able to work in multiple, concurrent, complex software projects.
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