Cloud platform engineer

📐 About this role

WRITER is experiencing an incredible market moment as generative AI has taken the world by storm. We're looking for a cloud platform engineer to establish our cloud platform team, focusing on building and scaling our multi-cloud architecture across AWS, GCP and Azure regions. In this founding role, you'll architect and implement highly scalable systems that handle complex multi-tenant workloads while ensuring proper tenant isolation and security.

As a cloud platform engineer, you'll work closely with our development teams to build robust, automated solutions for environment buildout, tenant management, and cross-region capabilities. You'll design and implement systems that ensure proper tenant isolation while enabling efficient environment lifecycle management. This is a unique opportunity to establish our cloud platform team and have a direct impact on our platform's scalability and security, working with cutting-edge technologies and solving complex distributed systems challenges.

You will report to Charles Cooke, head of cloud operations.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Your responsibilities:

• Establish and lead the cloud platform team

• Architect and implement multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Azure regions

• Design and build highly scalable, distributed systems for multi-tenant workloads

• Define and implement best practices for automated infrastructure across cloud providers

• Architect and implement tenant isolation mechanisms to ensure data security and compliance

• Create and manage environment lifecycle automation for dev/qa/demo environments

• Design and implement cross-region capabilities and active-active deployments

• Develop tenant migration and pod management solutions

• Collaborate with development teams to understand tenant requirements and constraints

• Implement infrastructure as code for region-level deployments

• Monitor and optimize tenant isolation and security

• Document tenant management processes and best practices

• Stay current with industry trends in multi-tenant architectures

• Participate in on-call rotation for critical platform services

• Contribute to technical decisions around tenant isolation and region management

• Mentor and grow the cloud platform team

• Implement and maintain deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines

• Design and optimize Kubernetes infrastructure for multi-tenant workloads

• Drive infrastructure cost optimization and efficiency

⭐️ Is this you?

• Have 8+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering or related role (site reliability engineering)

• Have 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams

• Are passionate about building secure, scalable multi-tenant platforms

• Have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Are proficient in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

• Have deep experience with multi-tenant architectures and tenant isolation

• Can write clean, maintainable code in Python, Go, or similar languages

• Understand containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Have proven experience with cross-region deployments and active-active architectures

• Are comfortable working with multiple development teams

• Can communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Take ownership of projects and drive them to completion

• Are excited about building automated infrastructure solutions

• Have a strong focus on security and tenant isolation

• Are comfortable with on-call responsibilities

• Have experience with agile development methodologies

• Have experience establishing new teams and best practices

• Can balance technical leadership with hands-on implementation

• Are excited about solving complex distributed systems challenges

• Have experience with multi-cloud architectures and hybrid deployments

🍩 Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family

• Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

• Fertility and family planning support

• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

• Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options

• Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution

• Annual work-life stipends for:

  • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.

  • Learning and development stipend

• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

• Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

WRITER is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Compensation Range: $157.7K - $277.8K