Senior Staff Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable cloud infrastructure, platform services, and deployment systems capable of supporting 10X growth and 99.999% availability.
• Build self-service application deployment automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions for end-to-end cloud operations.
• Own the reliability, scalability, performance, optimization, and operational excellence of cloud architecture and platform services.
• Analyze distributed production deployments and recommend improvements to performance, automation, network usage, role management, CDN, domains, and cloud security.
• Develop infrastructure roadmaps and technical vision while influencing multiple engineering teams and collaborating with customers, stakeholders, and lead engineers.
• Solve complex infrastructure problems across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud environments.
• Provide architecture artifacts, cloud infrastructure guidance, machine-type recommendations, network designs, and deployment strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 7+ years of total experience.
• Preferred bachelor's and/or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with 15+ years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience.
• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, Cloud DevOps, Cloud SRE, infrastructure-as-code, cloud infrastructure engineering, or high-performance distributed systems.
• 7+ years of experience leading system design and architecture using AWS or Azure services.
• 7+ years of experience building and managing highly available, scalable hybrid-cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Python or Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and cloud deployment automation.
• Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud services, infrastructure automation, continuous integration servers, monitoring, and testing tools.
• AWS advanced architecting or developing certification is preferred.
• Team leadership experience and excellent cross-group collaboration, verbal communication, and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage and Employee Assistance Program.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
• Up to six weeks of paid parental leave.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits and free electric vehicle charging.
• Base pay ranges from $174,000 to $299,000 per year, with an annual bonus opportunity of 0–20% of base salary.