Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer (Cloud Strategy & Innovation)

We are seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Foundations team, focusing on delivering scalable, secure, and flexible cloud infrastructure solutions. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll drive our cloud infrastructure strategy, including cloud connectivity, automating cloud landing zones, and overall cloud platform management.

Responsibilities:

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability, and operability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements
• Lead the adoption and responsible use of emerging AI and automation capabilities to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of cloud platforms and engineering workflows

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 6 years of experience in cloud engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 12+ years of experience in coding with at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
• 8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
• 8+ years of experience in CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks, and Automated Governance using Policy-as-Code DSLs
• One or more active certifications related to cloud infrastructure management or security
• Experience in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
• Experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security, and identity integrations
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting production cloud environments

Salary: McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 per year New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000 per year Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700 per year Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 per year San Francisco, CA: $343,400 - $392,000 per year