Senior Cloud Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

The role

You will architect and manage scalable cloud infrastructure across production and development environments. You will define deployment best practices, build CI/CD pipelines, and evolve Infrastructure as Code practices.

What you will do

• Architect and manage scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure across production and development environments
• Define and enforce best practices for cloud deployments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, Crossplane, or similar IaC tooling
• Drive platform improvements that reduce toil and increase developer velocity
• Explore and implement AI-driven approaches to infrastructure automation, observability, and incident response
• Partner with engineering teams to design systems that are cloud-native from the ground up
• Mentor engineers across the organization on cloud best practices and patterns

Required qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or experience with Crossplane or similar policy-driven IaC
• Fluency with modern CI/CD tooling such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar
• Strong GitOps mindset with tools like ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience designing container-based and Kubernetes-native architectures
• A genuine curiosity about applying AI and automation to infrastructure problems
• Strong communication skills
• A collaborative spirit with a bias toward documentation, standards, and shared ownership

Nice to have

• GCP (strongly preferred)
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization
• Background in platform engineering or developer experience (DX)
• Exposure to Cloud Security practices, and experience with IAM, SIEM, scanning, etc.
• Experience with service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd)

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) match
• Competitive compensation
• Financial coaching
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Parental coaching
• Medical, dental, & vision
• Mental health support
• $500 wellness stipend
• $2,000 learning stipend
• Internet, commuting, & free lunch/gym in our SF office

About the company

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