Lead Cloud Engineer

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to lead our Cloud work across our AWS infrastructure. This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our end-to-end applications across web, mobile, cloud, and data that support our customer experiences.

In this role, you'll work with a cross functional group of engineers, guide architectural decisions, and help scale products that are critical to our success and growth.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers building web and mobile applications, cloud backends, and data pipelines.
• Lead end-to-end technical delivery—from architecture and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
• Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver intuitive and performant user experiences.
• Champion modern software development practices, including CI/CD, IaC, observability, and test automation.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our systems.
• Promote a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years as a cloud (services) engineer / backend engineer
• Strong API design experience, and an understanding of building asynchronous systems and error handling.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (AWS IoT is a plus) 
• Familiarity with data pipelines and cloud-native data streaming and processing tools, such as Kinesis
• Strong background in Python
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably with serverless architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. API Gateway, Lambdas, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, and CDK).
• Passion for building reliable systems with deep knowledge of observability, tracing, and system performance.
• Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• TypeScript and modern JavaScript development.
• Data streaming and warehousing technologies like Kafka and Snowflake.
• Mobile application development, including React Native, native modules, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), deep linking, and websockets.
• Access control systems, such as designing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for internal and external applications.
• Experience with version control, CI/CD, and build systems (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with compliance and security standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and CPRA.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $220k to $250k, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs.