Listing Description

Director of Cloud Engineering

Summary of Responsibilities:

• As a lead of our cloud team, you will be responsible for architecting scalable, secure and high performance web applications with both frontend and backend components interfacing with thousands of IoT devices.


• You will help to make critical design decisions with appropriate trade-offs and deliver the implementation with speed and quality.


• You will lead the current cloud team and help scale the team to be able to meet future company goals.

Summary of Qualifications:

• Experience leading a cloud development team, frontend, backend and devops within a startup culture and help us scale by orders of magnitude to support thousands of devices.


• Strong technical experience in one or more of the following areas; IoT, data science, geospatial data, video processing or AI


• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design


• 10+ years software engineering roles with a track record of successful delivery of production quality web services at large scale


• Strong experience working with cloud services - AWS, Microservices, Dockers and Kubernetes 


• Strong experience with developing and integrating with highly secure REST APIs


• Experience working with all layers architecture such as databases, memory caches, message queues etc. 


• Experience with using web application development using Golang, React JS or similar.


• Absolutely fanatical about performance, automation and instrumentation. Ability to decompose complex distributed systems and quickly pinpoint issues. Experience with TDD, devOPS, CI/CD etc.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Prior start-up experience, growing from a small to medium sized cloud.


• Experience with using DeepLearning Frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow to run large scale (batched) data processing pipelines in the cloud  


• Experience with Geo-spatial databases such as PostgreSQL


• Experience architecting backend for (mobile) IoT devices

Compensation

• 200,000 -230,000 base salary 


• Considerable equity package 


• Extensive wide ranging health benefits 


• Company wide bonus program


• 401k with match program