2 months ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$150k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and operation of distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services processing petabytes of data weekly.
- Provide technical direction across frontend, backend, and data layers while contributing hands-on to implementation.
- Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, patterns, best practices, and coaching.
- Align team execution with product strategy, delivery commitments, and removal of technical friction.
- Drive service ownership, reliability efforts, on-call practices, incident response, resolution, and root cause analysis.
- Own platform capabilities for cluster lifecycle, workload scheduling, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native architecture.
- Partner with engineering teams to onboard workloads and translate reliability and scale requirements into platform capabilities.
- Drive platform efficiency and capacity outcomes while balancing reliability targets against compute cost.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native systems.
- Proven ability to set technical direction and lead teams effectively.
- Hands-on experience designing and building distributed, multi-tenant systems.
- Experience owning CI/CD, observability, and service reliability.
- Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, including cluster lifecycle, workload scheduling, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking, and security in a multi-tenant environment.
- Strong product and systems thinking, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
- Preferred: experience guiding UI, architecture, or data platform design.
- Preferred: prior people-lead or technical-lead experience and experience in regulated or large-scale environments.
- Preferred: familiarity with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.
- Preferred: experience in global or highly distributed organizations and depth in Azure and AKS.
- Preferred: experience operating multi-cluster fleets across regions or commercial and government cloud boundaries.
- Preferred: experience with infrastructure as code and automation tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid/remote work arrangement.
- Competitive base salary, annual performance bonus, long-term incentives, and an equity program.
- Health and retirement programs, wellness resources, and discretionary time off.
- Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers and two annual company breaks.
- Home office stipend.
- Volunteer opportunities and company-sponsored charitable programs.