AnswersNow

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
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSETLCI/CDscriptingautomationVPCIAMEC2LambdaS3
Soft Skills
problem solvingownershipcuriosityintegritycollaborationcommunicationsystem thinkingleadershipadaptabilityattention to detail