Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform
Core
Design, architect, and operate highly scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms for next-generation broadband services, combining deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership.
Role type
Staff individual contributor cloud platform engineer
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, networking, messaging, observability, and CI/CD pipelines for broadband service providers
Domain
Telecommunications / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), NATS, HAProxy, distributed systems, networking fundamentals, Python/Go/Bash, CI/CD pipelines, observability
Preferred skills
Broadband access networks (PON, OLTs/ONTs), service mesh, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, cloud security certifications, SRE experience
Technologies
Google Cloud (GKE, Compute Engine, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Composer/Airflow), Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, NATS, HAProxy, Python, Go, Bash
Responsibilities
Design and operate highly available, scalable, and secure cloud platform infrastructure; Define and implement strategies for platform reliability, observability, disaster recovery, and capacity management; Troubleshoot complex end-to-end service issues across cloud infrastructure and broadband environments; Design and operate NATS messaging infrastructure and HAProxy-based traffic management; Build scalable service communication frameworks using event-driven architectures; Design and manage Google Cloud infrastructure; Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt; Develop reusable platform services and self-service capabilities; Design and maintain enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines; Establish and enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting; Lead root cause analysis and incident response for critical platform issues; Mentor engineers and drive strategic platform initiatives
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence