Staff Cloud Engineer

Jobgether·Lever
United StatesFull-timePosted Jun 29, 2026
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This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Cloud Engineer based in the United States.

This is a senior individual-contributor role shaping the cloud and platform foundation that powers a fast-growing digital product ecosystem. You will design and operate secure, scalable multi-account cloud infrastructure while driving automation, reliability, and developer productivity at scale. The role blends cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, and software development with a strong emphasis on platform thinking and AI-assisted workflows. You will be a technical leader influencing standards, architecture decisions, and operational maturity across engineering teams. Expect to work across CI/CD, observability, security, and infrastructure automation in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ownership-heavy environments and enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges while improving engineering velocity and system resilience.

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Cloud Engineer based in the United States.

This is a senior individual-contributor role shaping the cloud and platform foundation that powers a fast-growing digital product ecosystem. You will design and operate secure, scalable multi-account cloud infrastructure while driving automation, reliability, and developer productivity at scale. The role blends cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, and software development with a strong emphasis on platform thinking and AI-assisted workflows. You will be a technical leader influencing standards, architecture decisions, and operational maturity across engineering teams. Expect to work across CI/CD, observability, security, and infrastructure automation in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ownership-heavy environments and enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges while improving engineering velocity and system resilience.

Accountabilities:

    Own and evolve cloud infrastructure and platform systems, ensuring scalability, security, and operational excellence across multi-account AWS environments. Build automation and self-service capabilities that reduce developer friction and improve deployment speed and reliability.

    • Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt, focusing on modularity, consistency, and drift reduction.
    • Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems to enable safe, efficient, and automated releases.
    • Build internal platform tooling and automation to improve developer experience and reduce operational overhead.
    • Own infrastructure domains including networking, IAM, secrets management, compute, and observability.
    • Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to improve incident response and system visibility.
    • Support compliance and security requirements including SOC2 readiness and audit alignment.
    • Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across cloud environments.
    • Drive infrastructure modernization, including architectural improvements and legacy system migrations.
    • Lead initiatives to optimize cloud spend without compromising performance or velocity.
    • Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across infrastructure and platform practices.
    • Requirements:

      Strong senior-level cloud engineering background with deep expertise in AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and production-scale systems. You bring both software engineering depth and infrastructure operational excellence, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

      • 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade AWS infrastructure in multi-account environments.
      • Strong expertise in Terraform and infrastructure-as-code patterns at scale (Terragrunt strongly preferred).
      • Solid software engineering skills with experience writing production-quality code in Python, TypeScript, Bash, or similar.
      • Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
      • Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and incident response tooling (Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
      • Experience supporting production databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
      • Familiarity with SOC2 compliance, audits, and secure infrastructure practices.
      • Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering standards across teams.
      • Strong communication skills and ability to drive clarity in ambiguous, high-impact environments.
      • Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) as part of daily workflows.
      • Experience safely evaluating and operationalizing AI-generated infrastructure or code in production settings.
      • Bonus: experience with internal developer platforms, containerized workloads (ECS, Fargate, Docker), or FinOps practices.
      • Benefits:

        • Competitive compensation including salary and equity package
        • 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
        • Flexible remote-first work environment with adaptable scheduling
        • Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and additional paid wellness and volunteer days
        • 401(k) with employer match and financial wellness resources
        • Learning and development stipend plus home office setup support
        • Mental health, family planning, and caregiving support benefits
        • Annual stipend for remote work tools and productivity enhancements
        • Strong emphasis on work-life balance and family-friendly policies.
How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!  Why Apply Through Jobgether?    Data Privacy Notice: By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Jobgether will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy and share relevant information with the hiring employer. This processing is based on legitimate interest and pre-contractual measures under applicable data protection laws (including GDPR). You may exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection) at any time.     #LI-CL1

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