Staff Cloud Engineer

Description

The company is moving a large cloud infrastructure estate to a new setup, and this role helps lead that work.

You will join a team that combines data with newer technologies to build infrastructure at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Set out a clear, ambitious technical direction for your area and advocate for it
• Break hard problems into practical, workable solutions the team can operate
• Check the quality of technical designs and their implementation
• Act as the go-to expert on performance, scalability and operability
• Keep learning and share advanced technical knowledge with the wider community
• Juggle several projects at once and put your time where it has the most effect
• Coach engineers and product staff, acting as a role model and building their technical skills
• Move monolithic systems toward microservices and event-driven platforms
• Work with senior engineering and architecture leaders on long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Combine hands-on building with mentoring, raising the skills of peers and junior engineers
• Lead cross-division projects that spread better technical practices
• Drive the careful adoption of emerging AI and automation to make cloud platforms and engineering workflows more scalable, reliable and efficient

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics or Engineering
• At least 8 years of software engineering experience
• At least 4 years of cloud engineering experience
• Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Preferred: 10+ years coding in at least one of Java, Scala, Python, Go or Node.js
• Preferred: 6+ years on public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI
• Preferred: 6+ years with CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi or Crossplane, and Policy-as-Code governance such as OPA
• Preferred: one or more active certifications in cloud infrastructure management or security
• Preferred: experience optimizing large, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native designs such as Kubernetes and serverless
• Preferred: experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security and identity integrations
• Preferred: experience troubleshooting and supporting production cloud environments
• Preferred: experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts or large technical initiatives
• Preferred: experience shaping technology strategy at portfolio or business unit level
• Preferred: experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic programs across domains
• Preferred: experience defining and tracking engineering OKRs tied to business outcomes
• Preferred: experience shaping organization design and talent strategy to scale engineering
• Preferred: experience communicating at executive level to influence technology decisions
• Preferred: experience leading architecture design reviews and shaping enterprise-wide technical standards and methods
• Preferred: experience across the full system lifecycle, from concept through architecture, build, testing, deployment and production support
• Preferred: experience mentoring senior engineers and guiding professional growth on technical teams
• Preferred: skill in applying agentic AI coding tools to solve system-wide development problems

Conditions

The company may consider sponsoring a new, qualified applicant for employment authorization for this role

Full-time annual salary ranges by location: McLean, VA $269,100 to $307,200; New York, NY $293,600 to $335,100; Plano, TX $244,700 to $279,200; Richmond, VA $244,700 to $279,200

Pay for candidates hired in other locations follows that location's range, and the exact salary is stated in the offer letter

Part-time salaries are prorated to the agreed number of regular hours

The role may earn performance-based incentive pay, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives, and may be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan

Applications will be accepted for at least 5 business days

No agencies. The company is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable laws on non-discrimination and criminal background inquiries

The employing entity depends on location: Canadian roles are with the company Canada, UK roles with the company Europe, and Philippines roles with the company Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC)

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive health, financial and other benefits that support overall well-being
• Eligibility varies by full- or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt classification, and management level