Staff Cloud Engineer

We are a high-growth company that is looking for teammates who want to be key contributors to changing the way businesses are run. This is an incredible opportunity to complete work that is disrupting industries. Be a part of scaling a business by increasing the number of devices, events, applications, services, and traffic that result in measurable success for our customers. We have the best and brightest minds in AI, IoT, Cloud and Mobile who have built leading companies in those spaces (Microsoft, Amazon Alexa, SmartThings, Samsung).

We are looking for a Staff Cloud Engineer who wants to join us in a fast paced setting to build next generation cloud and applications that leverage all the latest capabilities of AWS, Kafka, DevOps, cloud native, containers, AI and ML. Our tech stack is built for high scale with ability to connect many devices and services while being able to process tens of millions events a day. As a member of the team you will play an integral role in shaping the architecture and features required to enhance our cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Work with cloud developers, product managers and designers to guide and make technical decisions throughout the development process.
• Lead the architecture and design of our client platform.
• Mentor other developers and contractors throughout the development lifecycle.
• Prototype unproven concepts to inform final implementations.
• Stay abreast of cloud trends and topics
• Automate everything possible. Leverages CI/CD to automate repeatable tasks and quality checks.
• Managing Infrastructure as Code
• Managing and supporting engineering teams release software
• Building the tools and support for teams to be able to self-manage in an owner-operator model

Skills and Expertise

• Passionate for continuous learning and understanding things in and around Cloud development
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience with Cloud technologies and languages (Javascript, Typescript, Python, Kotlin, Java, Node.js)
• AWS Cloud Experience using EC2, Lambda, ECS, RDS and DocumentDB
• Experience building event driven architectures at high scale using Kafka
• Experience with Infrastructure as code using Terraform & Cloudformation
• Experience with high availability deployment across many regions and availability zones
• Experience with SumoLogic, DataDog, CloudWatch or similar tools for observability
• Deep experience with Git, Github, Pull Request, and Rebasing
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative and iterative development environment
• Ability to lead and define cloud initiatives with other engineers
• Experience working with a highly reactive platform
• Experience with establishing, promoting and ensuring best practices in Cloud codebases including common architectures and standardized unit testing
• Experience building reusable libraries, SDK’s and shared components used by many applications.
• Intricate knowledge of building and managing Https web services using REST

Bonus

• Experience with multiple AWS accounts
• Experience working with AI, ML or AR
• Experience with Docker container development and hosting
• Experience with growing large teams and can describe the issues that arise with growth
• Previous startup experience
• Experience with Serverless architectures