Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
Perplexity3 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and technical strategy for agent-driven cloud infrastructure management.
- Design and operate cloud networking fabric, including VPC architectures, private connectivity, and peering with hyperscalers and neocloud providers.
- Architect and scale Kubernetes/EKS compute platforms, autoscaling groups, and mixed CPU/GPU fleets across regions.
- Build and maintain secure, isolated multi-tenant, single-tenant, and customer-owned cloud deployment topologies, including cross-account networking, identity, and policy guardrails.
- Implement multi-region availability, failover, data locality, traffic routing, regional capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Partner with security to deliver BYOK/KMS integrations, network isolation, auditability, and other enterprise controls.
- Develop automation, tooling, and runbooks for predictable provisioning, upgrades, and incident response across environments.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of industry experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including leading complex system designs or migrations.
- Deep experience designing and operating AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPC design, routing, security groups, load balancing, and private connectivity.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration in multi-cluster, multi-region, or multi-account environments.
- Hands-on experience with cloud networking and peering, including VPC peering, Transit Gateway, private link/service endpoints, or comparable neocloud constructs.
- Experience building or operating secure, isolated enterprise environments such as single-tenant, BYOC, or on-premises deployments, ideally with BYOK/KMS integrations and compliance constraints.
- Proficiency with Terraform and strong software engineering skills in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust.
- Strong debugging and incident management skills across distributed networking, compute, and platform systems, including root-cause analysis and long-term remediation.
- Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not match every listed qualification.
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