Sr Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
On-siteRedwood City, California, United States
Job Summary
Architect and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, plus GCP, Azure, OCI, on-prem) to support customer deployments across diverse environments. Define and implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi, driving best practices across the team. Design and manage Kubernetes-based systems for model training, inference, and data processing workloads. Write production-quality Python code daily to build real systems, not just scripts. This role targets candidates with 4+ years of cloud infrastructure experience and a CS or engineering degree. The team supports AI research labs, foundation model companies, and major cloud providers.
Required Qualifications
- Must handle both coding and systems design
- Python, Terraform, and Kubernetes expertise required
- Must have a computer science or relevant engineering degree
- 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering
- Cloud infrastructure engineering at production scale
- Designing and operating highly available, scalable infrastructure systems
- Managing Kubernetes-based systems for compute workloads
- Implementing infrastructure-as-code across environments
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering field
- Strong Python coding ability (not just scripting)
- Bash or Go
- Strong Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized architecture expertise
- AWS required
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulumi)
- CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability & systems-level debugging
- Architect and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, plus GCP, Azure, OCI, on-prem) to support customer deployments across diverse environments
- Define and implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi, driving best practices across the team
- Design and manage Kubernetes-based systems for model training, inference, and data processing workloads
- Write production-quality Python code daily — this is not a scripting-only role; you'll pass rigorous coding interviews and build real systems
Desired Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience preferred
- multi-cloud a plus (GCP, Azure, OCI, on-prem)
- Google Cloud Platform Certified
- Microsoft Azure
- Cloudflare
- Datadog
- Confluent
- HashiCorp
- Pulumi
- Temporal Technologies
- Vercel
- Fly.io
- Render
- Railway
- Teleport
- Crossplane project
- AI research labs and foundation model companies (teams with large-scale cloud infrastructure for training)
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Cohere
- Inflection AI
- Adept AI
- Stability AI
- Hugging Face
- xAI
- Cloud-native infrastructure teams at major cloud providers and big tech
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- OCI
- on-prem
- Docker
- Helm
- CloudFormation
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