Position: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: Cambridge, MA, US (Hybrid, 2 days onsite)
Offer: up to $197K depends on experience plus benefits (negotiable)
Key responsibilities for the Senior Cloud Engineer include:
- Design and deploy scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed services.
- Configure and optimize network architecture, including VPCs, subnets, firewalls, and load balancers, to ensure high availability, security, and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure designs, looking for opportunities to share code and reduce maintenance burden.
- Provides input into the roadmap of teams representing upstream dependencies to help improve the overall program of work.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Stay aligned with industry best practice in cloud infrastructure, continuously improving our architecture and security posture.
- Optimize resource utilization and cost management while maintaining governance and compliance standards.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing culture.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related issues and provide technical support to internal teams.
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Deep knowledge of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, including toolchains for documentation, testing, operations, and observability.
- Deep expertise in modern software development tools and ways of working (e.g., git/GitHub, DevOps tools, metrics / monitoring, …)
- Expertise of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Experience of agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence.
- Familiarity with tools, techniques, relevant to their specialization area, including engagement with open-source communities.