Staff Cloud Engineer (Architect)
On-site · California, United States
Job Summary
Staff Cloud Engineer (Architect) to design, scale, and secure cloud-native applications and services for a fast-growing Physical-AI platform. Responsibilities include guiding technical decisions with cross-functional teams, designing high-quality cloud APIs for mobile/web/edge devices, prototyping concepts, automating with CI/CD, building owner-operator tooling, diagnosing cross-team issues, and leading cloud initiatives. Required skills include deep experience with Docker, AWS (EKS/ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS), event-driven architectures at scale, Terraform IaC, observability tooling (SumoLogic, DataDog, CloudWatch), Git/Jira workflows, REST/OpenAPI, and strong coding in Python/Golang, plus a BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience with cloud technologies and languages (Python, Golang)
- Experience with Docker container development and hosting
- AWS cloud experience using EKS/ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS
- Experience building event driven architectures at high scale
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- 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, pull request and code reviews as well as Jira for software development lifecycle
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative and iterative development environment
- Ability to lead and define cloud initiatives and distill technical requirements from high-level product use cases to production-ready implementations
- Experience 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
- Intricate knowledge of building and managing web services using REST and OpenAPI
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
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