
Senior Cloud Engineer
AnswersNow
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $175,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security.
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to support fast, safe, and repeatable deployments.
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines that ingest data from third-party vendors and internal systems into our data warehouse.
- Partner with data and product teams to ensure data is accurate, timely, and well-modeled for analytics and reporting.
- Lead initiatives around cloud security, including IAM best practices, infrastructure hardening, monitoring, and compliance support.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting to protect uptime and quickly surface issues.
- Drive AWS cost optimization, identifying inefficiencies and implementing tooling, budgets, and architectural improvements.
- Collaborate closely with application engineers to improve deployment processes, system performance, and developer experience.
- Act as a technical owner for cloud systems, balancing immediate needs with long-term platform health.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in cloud, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles.
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2/ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Experience designing and operating ETL or data ingestion pipelines, ideally involving third-party vendors or external data sources.
- Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals and best practices.
- Experience optimizing cloud costs in a production environment.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Node.js, Bash, or similar).
- Ability to think in systems: solving problems quickly while designing for long-term resilience.
- A strong sense of ownership, curiosity, and integrity.
- A collaborative mindset—you enjoy working across engineering, data, and product teams.
Benefits
- Stock options and meaningful ownership in company growth.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Remote-first team with flexible work environment.
- Flexible hours with an async-friendly team culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSETLCI/CDscriptingautomationVPCIAMEC2LambdaS3
Soft Skills
problem solvingownershipcuriosityintegritycollaborationcommunicationsystem thinkingleadershipadaptabilityattention to detail