Staff AI Cloud Engineer

Job Description

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**About this Position**

We are hiring a hands-on technical leader to raise the engineering bar across our teams.

You will partner with Engineering Managers and senior engineers to improve architecture, technical design, code reviews, CI/CD, infrastructure, and engineering practices. You will also remain an active individual contributor, shipping production code and leading technically complex initiatives.

This is not a traditional architect role focused on diagrams and approvals. You will build systems, create practical engineering guardrails, and help teams make better technical decisions without becoming a bottleneck.

**What you will do:**

* Define and evolve architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams.
* Partner with Engineering Managers and technical leads on complex system-design decisions.
* Lead technical designs, RFCs, architecture reviews, and critical code reviews.
* Build and ship production systems across AI, backend, cloud, infrastructure, and full-stack applications.
* Improve CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
* Create reusable platforms, libraries, reference implementations, and paved roads for teams.
* Help design and operate production AI systems, including model integration, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
* Contribute to cloud infrastructure and help resolve complex production issues.
* Mentor engineers and raise technical quality through hands-on leadership.
* Ensure engineering standards remain effective after they are introduced.

**What we are looking for:**

***Minimum Requirements:***

* 15+ years of experience in architecture.
* Founding Engineer experienced with scaling startups.
* Ability to influence multiple teams without relying on formal authority.
* Resourceful and Independent to own and operate across teams and individual projects.
* Strong experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
* Deep expertise in AI systems, backend or distributed systems, infrastructure and cloud architecture.
* Practical understanding of modern AI systems, including foundation models, inference, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, latency, and cost.
* Strong working knowledge of full-stack development.
* Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms.

**Preferred Qualifications:**
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What Success Looks Like
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* Lead the engineering transformation to turn adhoc features into scaled robust systems
* Setup practices for Release Lifecycle.
* Improve the quality and consistency of technical design across teams.
* Establish engineering guardrails that teams actually use.
* Reduce repeated architectural mistakes and unnecessary duplication.
* Improve developer velocity, reliability, and operational quality.
* Become a trusted technical partner to Engineering Managers and senior engineers

The annual gross base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $225,000 plus variable compensation