The Role
We are seeking a highly skilledSenior Staff Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team. In this role you will design develop and deliver the selfservice abstractions and foundational cloud primitives that empower teams to build efficiently on AWS. Your work will focus on compute storage networking and authentication providing scalable secure and reliable building blocks that allow other teams to accelerate development and innovation. You will collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across the company to drive architectural decisions influence best practices mentor engineers and own largescale projects from ideation to production.
What Youll Do:
- Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Define and execute the technical strategy for core cloud platform servicesincluding compute (EC2 Serverless) storage (S3 RDS DynamoDB) networking (VPC routing service meshes) and authentication (AWS IAM custom auth flows).
- Lead the design and implementation of selfservice frameworks and tooling that allow product teams to spin up secure scalable infrastructure quickly.
- Champion best practices in infrastructureascode (IaC) ensuring consistent repeatable and automated provisioning of cloud resources.
- Architecture & Implementation
- Architect scalable reliable and highly available systems that handle the platforms growth and evolving needs ensuring low latency and strong performance.
- Implement security and compliance best practices for authentication and identity management collaborating with security teams to safeguard customer data and meet regulatory requirements.
- Innovate to reduce complexity and accelerate the adoption of new cloud technologies proactively identifying and solving bottlenecks in infrastructure or tooling.
- CrossFunctional Collaboration
- Collaborate with product teams security DevOps and other engineering organizations to understand requirements identify gaps and deliver solutions that simplify the developer experience.
- Serve as a key technical advisor to leadership influencing roadmaps participating in planning sessions and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Mentorship & Influence
- Mentor and guide engineers across the organization sharing best practices in design patterns system architecture cloudnative development and operational excellence.
- Act as a thought leader presenting technical concepts and recommendations to diverse teams and senior leadership.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement learning and collaborationsetting high standards for code quality reliability and maintainability.
- Operational Excellence
- Drive observability (logging monitoring tracing) strategies that ensure proactive detection of issues in compute storage networking and auth layers.
- Define and track servicelevel objectives (SLOs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the availability performance and cost efficiency of platform services.
- Own complex incident resolution guiding teams on rootcause analysis and ensuring continuous feedback loops to improve system resilience.
What Youll Need:
- Experience & Education
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 8 years of professional software development experience including at least 2 years in a technical leadership or equivalent senior/principal engineering role.
- Technical Expertise
- Deep knowledge of AWS (VPC EC2 EKS IAM S3 RDS/DynamoDB) and cloudnative technologies (e.g. Kubernetes Docker service meshes).
- Proven track record of infrastructureascode (IaC) using tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or Pulumi.
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go Python Java etc. and solid understanding of distributed systems design principles.
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Demonstrated ability to drive largescale crossfunctional initiatives collaborate effectively with stakeholders and balance business priorities with technical constraints.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences including executives product managers and junior engineers.
- ProblemSolving & Innovation
- History of devising creative solutions to complex infrastructure and platform challenges.
- Passion for continuous improvement optimizing cloud resource utilization developer experience and operational excellence.
- Security & Compliance
- Familiarity with security standards and compliance frameworks (SOC2 PCI HIPAA etc. relevant to financial services or regulated industries.
Required Experience:
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