Staff Cloud Software Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

Staff Cloud Software Engineer (AWS): Architect, deploy, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure and developer tooling with an accent on security posture, CI/CD pipelines, and high availability. Focus on designing IAM strategies, managing costs, automating operations with Python/Bash, and mentoring engineers on production resilience.

Location: Remote (Toronto); Hybrid (Atlanta, New York City, South San Francisco)

Company

Series A startup backed by top-tier VCs, transforming ground handling operations for airlines and providers worldwide with autonomy technology.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate fault-tolerant AWS systems using ECS, ECR, EC2 for scalable applications.
• Architect infrastructure with Terraform, enforce IaC practices, and manage state.
• Administer Google Workspace, IAM strategies, and security configurations across AWS.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated delivery.
• Manage virtualization, PaaS/SaaS, big data like DynamoDB, and cloud costs.
• Mentor engineers, handle support requests, and automate tooling in Python/Bash.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics, or related.
• 7+ years building infrastructure/tooling for large-scale cloud ops.
• Extensive AWS hands-on (ECS, ECR, EC2, IAM, cross-account access).
• Google Workspace admin experience (provisioning, security).
• Terraform expertise (modules, state, backends).
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions; IT security; virtualization/PaaS; fault-tolerant systems; DynamoDB; Python/Bash scripting; mentoring.

Nice to have

• AWS services (Lambda, Batch, SageMaker, VPC); CloudFormation.
• Autonomy/robotics infra, ROS/ROS2, C++, AI support.
• Engineering management, cost optimization, observability tools, Agile/KPIs, Kubernetes/Docker/Jenkins.

Culture & Benefits

• High-visibility staff IC or tech lead role shaping engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, ops teams.
• Opportunity to mentor and drive growth in safety-critical, high-availability environment.