Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

We are seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to drive the design and operation of the cloud platform that powers our autonomous systems.

In this role, you will be a hands-on staff-level individual contributor, owning the design of secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure while helping set the technical direction for how we provision, deploy, and operate services.

You will work closely with backend, SRE, data, autonomy, and security teams to deliver platform capabilities that support mission-critical workloads in real-world environments.

This role is ideal for someone who combines deep cloud and infrastructure expertise with strong technical judgment, thrives in fast-paced, high-ownership environments, and is energized by complex and ambiguous platform challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive execution and technical excellence across cloud platform projects
• Set infrastructure standards, conduct design and code reviews, and guide architectural decisions
• Shape the cloud platform roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership
• Foster a culture of ownership, quality, automation, and continuous improvement

• Design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms, including EKS, and container workflows for application teams
• Build self-service tooling and paved paths that enable teams to deploy and operate services safely
• Ensure the platform reliably supports both application and data workloads
• Design platform capabilities with reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency in mind

• Optimize cloud systems for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling limits, and reliability risks
• Establish reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response
• Improve observability, maintainability, and operational readiness across cloud platform services

• Partner with backend, SRE, data, autonomy, and security teams to deliver platform capabilities across the stack
• Support end-to-end system design from edge devices to cloud infrastructure
• Coordinate across teams to build and maintain release processes and CI/CD pipelines
• Help align platform capabilities with product, engineering, security, and mission needs

• Enforce secure cloud practices, including IAM least privilege, secrets management, and network segmentation
• Maintain high standards for automation, testing, observability, documentation, and infrastructure reliability
• Support technical reviews, design discussions, and production readiness efforts
• Build systems with security, scalability, and long-term maintainability in mind

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or related engineering roles
• Deep expertise with AWS core services, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed data services
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, including EKS, and containerized environments
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages for platform tooling and automation
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Ability to drive projects from concept through production
• Strong technical judgment and ability to operate independently in fast-moving environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance if required

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting autonomy, robotics, simulation, real-time systems, or mission-critical platforms
• Experience designing multi-account AWS organizations and landing zones
• Familiarity with observability tooling at scale, including metrics, logging, and tracing
• Knowledge of AWS GovCloud or compliance-driven environments, including FedRAMP, IL4, or IL5
• Experience with platform engineering, developer experience, self-service infrastructure, or paved-path tooling
• Experience working in small, fast-moving engineering teams or high-growth technology companies
• Active or prior security clearance

What Success Looks Like

Within 12 months, success in this role looks like consistent delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable cloud platform capabilities that support real-world deployments. You will have helped establish self-service infrastructure, mature CI/CD practices, clear infrastructure standards, and well-defined platform boundaries.

You will also have built strong alignment across backend, SRE, data, autonomy, security, and product teams while helping ensure HavocAI's cloud platform is ready to support mission-critical autonomous operations.