Staff Engineer Cloud Scalability

Role overview Lead efforts to improve the scalability, availability, performance, and cost efficiency of a cloud-hosted application serving users across regions. You’ll guide infrastructure design and reliability practices while partnering with several small engineering teams on implementation, monitoring, and production support. Periodic participation in an on-call and escalation rotation is expected.

Responsibilities - Lead capacity planning, autoscaling, and performance tuning across the application. - Set practices for reliability, observability, scalability, and infrastructure resilience. - Review architecture and recommend changes that improve performance and manage costs. - Work with engineering teams on microservice infrastructure, including API gateways and containerization, with attention to data contracts and scale. - Improve metrics and tracing to diagnose bottlenecks, and help teams meet service objectives. - Lead responses to serious cloud incidents and help production teams measure and forecast cloud costs.

Requirements - At least five years in cloud engineering, site reliability, or infrastructure roles; a relevant degree or equivalent experience. - Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation. - Deep AWS experience, including services such as ECS, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, KMS, and RDS. - Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies. - Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, Go, or a similar language. - Knowledge of distributed systems, caching, event-driven architecture, performance testing, CI/CD, and multi-region deployments; must be a US citizen or permanent resident.

Nice to have AWS professional certification, experience with zero-downtime migrations, profiling tools, and modern observability systems. Familiarity with LLM tools is expected.

Benefits and work setup The listed salary range is $174,600–$220,000 USD. Full-time benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; parental leave; life and disability coverage; a 401(k) with employer matching from the first day; and a performance bonus primarily tied to organization-wide results.