Principal Cloud Engineer

Job Overview:

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and systems that underpin our services. Your focus will be on improving the reliability and performance of our applications through automation, monitoring, and collaboration with development teams. You will be responsible for addressing operational concerns and ensuring high availability.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design infrastructure that meets the requirements for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning, configuration, and scaling of infrastructure components.
• Implement effective monitoring and alerting systems to detect and respond to performance issues and outages promptly.
• Lead incident response and post-incident analysis to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Analyze system usage and work with teams to plan for future capacity requirements.
• Ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance standards, implement security best practices, and perform regular security audits.
• Continuously optimize infrastructure to improve performance and resource utilization.
• Create and maintain documentation for infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures.
• Collaborate with software engineers to influence the design and architecture of applications for improved reliability.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical incidents outside of regular business hours.

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or a similar role.
• Experience in building and scaling large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems like storage, search, and computation.
• Must have experience in infrastructure automation tools (e.g.,Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of system and network architecture, security, and best practices.
• Must have experience in one of the following scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Shell).
• Experience in monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to handle incidents and outages effectively.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement in a fast-growing company.
• The chance to work directly with our co-founders and contribute meaningfully to shaping the company’s direction.
• A collaborative and dynamic work environment with a dedicated team of professionals.

The base annual compensation range being offered for this role depending on individual candidate level and experience is $180,000 to $220,000, and an opportunity to participate in equity ownership.