Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Your impact

Your role

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  Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure solutions using industry best practices.
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  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration of infrastructure components and broader application architecture.
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  Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud infrastructure performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
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  Automate deployment, configuration, and management tasks using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Spacelift.
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  Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the infrastructure team.
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  Participate in on-call rotations to address infrastructure-related incidents and ensure high availability of our cloud services and the Handshake Platform.
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  Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and trends, evaluating their potential impact on existing infrastructure and recommending appropriate adoption strategies.
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  Design and document infrastructure configurations, procedures, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintain operational efficiency.
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  Lead our Technical Excellence program, increasing observability and measurement of KPIs & SLOs across our platforms.
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  Implement modern, cloud-native solutions such as service mesh, advanced scaling and deployment strategies, workflow orchestration.
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  Develop and improve processes to provide self-service and first-class user experience for our engineers.
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  Be a thought leader, drive innovation by helping to develop team roadmaps aligning with our business goals.
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  Work in a 100% Cloud Environment (GCP) and use tools and services like Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Datadog, Kubernetes, improving the reliability and scalability of our platforms.

Your experience

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  You are adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
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  You thrive taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome-oriented, measuring business impact
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  You act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers, focusing on user experience and simplicity
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  You build and maintaining cloud-based architectures in AWS and/or GCP, at scale
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  You have expertise with Kubernetes, IaC, observability and modern infrastructure tooling
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  You have prior experience with building and maintaining self-service tooling and guardrails
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  You have experience in securing Cloud workloads through implementing best practices such as OPA, RBAC, and utilizing Kubernetes security features
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  You have experience building or working directly with SRE in areas related to Operational Readiness and Incident Response
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  You have Infrastructure networking experience: firewalls, load balancing, DNS, etc.
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  You are passionate about building simple, yet high-quality infrastructure
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  You have experience working in distributed, performant, at-scale backend systems
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  You are strong in Operations and have a passion for automation and reducing toil

Bonus areas of expertise

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  GitOps & Argo ecosystem of tools
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  Service Mesh (istio, Linkerd, etc.)
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  ElasticSearch and search indexing, semantic and vector search experience
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  Distributed tracing and observability with tools like Datadog, OTEL
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  FinOps and cloud cost controls/governance

Compensation range

U.S.-based roles

About us

What we offer

Benefits below apply to employees in full-time positions.

• 💰 Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 🍼 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.
• 💝 Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.
• 💻 Handshake offers $500/£360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
• 📚 Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500/€1,850 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
• 💰 Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.
• 🛜 Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.
• 🚃 Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).
• 🥗 Free lunch provided twice a week across all offices.
• 🤝 Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.

(US-specific benefits, in addition to the first section)

• 🏦 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.
• 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 8 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off.
• 🍼 Lactation support: Handshake partners with Milk Stork to provide a comprehensive 100% employer-sponsored lactation support to traveling parents and guardians.

(UK-specific benefits, in addition to the first section) 

• 🏦 Pension Scheme: Handshake will provide you with a workplace pension, where you will make contributions based on 5% of your salary. Handshake will pay the equivalent of 3% towards your pension plan, subject to qualifying earnings limits.
• 🏝 Up to 25 days of vacation to encourage people to reset, recharge, and refresh, in addition to 8 bank holidays throughout the year.
• 🤝 Regular offsites each year to bring the team together + opportunity to travel to our HQ in San Francisco.
• 🛍️ Discounts across various high street retailers, cinemas and other social activities exclusively for Handshake UK employees.

(Germany-specific benefits, in addition to the first section)

• 🏝 25 days of annual leave + we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off across the company.
• 🤝 Regular offsites each year to bring the team together + opportunity to travel to our HQ in San Francisco once a year.
• 🧘 Urban sports club membership offering access to a diverse network of fitness and wellness facilities.
• 🛍️ Discounts across various high street retailers, cinemas and other social activities exclusively for Handshake Germany employees.