Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Software Engineer
Edison ScientificBase Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate deployment systems across AWS and GCP.
- Develop operators, infrastructure tooling, and automation for bring-your-own-cloud deployments.
- Support enterprise client deployments and onboarding directly with client engineering and security teams.
- Partner with forward deployed engineering to scope requirements and deliver active engagements.
- Diagnose BYOC bottlenecks and improve operational capacity.
- Contribute to BYOC product architecture and technical decision-making.
- Harden deployment security, reliability, and observability in customer-controlled environments.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production.
- Proficiency in Python for backend development and infrastructure tooling.
- Deep familiarity with AWS or GCP, security, and deployment operations.
- Strong understanding of application network architecture, including VPCs, DNS, secrets, and proxies.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane and GitOps workflows.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with enterprise clients.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, multi-tenant architectures, customer-controlled deployments, AI applications, scientific computing, startups, significant architectural ownership, or scaling systems through rapid growth.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Full healthcare coverage with 100% of premiums paid for employees and dependents.
- Yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot.
- Mental health support through Rula.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
- Yearly employer-funded pet care stipend.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- 401(k) company matching.
- $300 quarterly health and wellness benefit.
- Free lunch every day employees are in the office and free dinner when working late.
- Regular team off-sites and company events.
- Full-time, on-site role at the San Francisco office in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
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About Edison Scientific
Edison Scientific is building the AI platform for scientific research and development. Kosmos, our AI scientist, collaborates with teams across the full R&D lifecycle, leveraging proprietary data and organizational context to help navigate complex scientific decisions and accelerate timelines from discovery to FDA approval. We believe the full gains from AI in science will only be realized when AI systems are integrated across the entire research and development stack, continuously learning from the evolving scientific context inside an organization. With Edison Scientific, scientists and researchers remain at the center of scientific progress, using AI to amplify their expertise and accelerate discovery at unprecedented speed. Edison is a scientist-led company that was spun out of the nonprofit research lab FutureHouse in 2025, backed by $70M from Spark Capital, Triatomic Capital, Susa Ventures, Pillar Ventures, among other investors.