Staff Cloud Engineer
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Job Location:
Foster, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Zoox is expanding its focus within the IT Platform team to further our mission of providing Autonomous Mobility. We are seeking a Senior-level Cloud Engineer to support and enhance our use of AWS services. This role involves working cross-functionally with multiple engineering teams to ensure the best practices in cloud infrastructure.
In This Role You Will:
- Technical and Business Relationship: Maintain and manage the technical and business relationship between Zoox and its cloud providers.
- Cost Management: Understand and maintain costs associated with Zooxs cloud platforms ensuring cost efficiency and optimization.
- AWS Best Practices: Implement AWS best practices for security operations cost management resiliency and performance across Zooxs cloud platforms.
- Cloud Center of Excellence: Establish and lead a cloud center of excellence to drive innovation efficiency and best practices in cloud infrastructure.
- Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to refine and enhance Zooxs hybrid cloud strategy.
Qualifications:
- AWS/GCP Expertise: Strong understanding of cloud products and services in a production environment including infrastructure capacity planning scalability backups storage security best practices and emerging technologies.
- IaC: Orchestration Best practices delivery support self service user community - Terraform preferred but CloudFormation would be considered
- Automation Skills: Proven understanding of AI based software development best practices programming/scripting languages and Infrastructure as Code patterns
- Observability: Building dashboards and alerting systems understanding and implementing observability frameworks
- Cost Optimization: Proven ability to identify and implement cost optimization practices within AWS ecosystems including total cost of ownership cloud cost optimization tools and cost reporting services.
- Cloud Computing Strategies: Deep understanding of cloud computing strategies and architecture such as multi-cloud hybrid and multi-user environments.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams including Engineering Operations and Business Units to achieve business objectives.
- Communication Skills: Expert written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively with all levels of business.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Security Best Practices: Experience with AWS security best practices and compliance.
- Team Leadership: Proven track record of working in a collaborative team-oriented environment with the ability to lead and mentor junior team members.
- Kubernetes: Experience designing deploying and running containerized services mostly on EKS
- AI/ML Services: Understanding of AI/ML AWS services and best practices.
$236000 - $297000 a year
Base Salary Range
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling as well as positioning within a level is determined by a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates relevant years of experience domain knowledge and interview performance. The salary range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave vacation bereavement) unpaid time off Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights Amazon RSUs health insurance long-term care insurance long-term and short-term disability insurance and life insurance.
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first ground-up fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics machine learning and design Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. Were looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.
Accommodations
If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please reach out to emailprotected or your assigned recruiter.
A Final Note:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
About Company
We’re reinventing personal transportation—making the future safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable for everyone. This is on-demand autonomous ride-hailing.
