Jobs / CHAOS Industries
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
CHAOS Industries · San Francisco, CA, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States140,000-240,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
Pre-IPO stock options; annual bonuses planned
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Build and operate the cloud platform that moves mission-critical, real-time radar sensor data from field deployments to operators, scaling infrastructure and backend services as the sensor fleet and customer base grow. The role covers Azure infrastructure managed with Terraform, containerized Python and FastAPI services, and data systems including PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, Redis, and Cosmos DB, alongside platform architecture, security, reliability, observability, and incident response.
Benefits
Company-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits401(k) with 50% company match up to 6% of payFSAHSALife insuranceUnlimited paid time offFree onsite lunchFully stocked kitchenCasual dress codeRelocation assistancePre-IPO stock options
Qualifications
- Production infrastructure experience with a major cloud provider and an infrastructure-as-code tool
- Experience operating containerized production workloads on a managed platform
- Strong cloud networking fundamentals, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancers, private endpoints, and firewalls
- Production backend development experience in Python, Go, or a similar language
- Understanding of concurrency, asynchronous I/O, connection pooling, and resource limits
- Knowledge of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, replication, partitioning, caching, back-pressure, and idempotency
- Experience scaling production systems and resolving failures
- Secure-by-default practices, including least-privilege access, secrets management, patching, and system hardening
- Preferred: experience with regulated cloud environments or frameworks such as FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171, or NIST 800-53
- Preferred: experience with real-time streaming systems and cloud identity and security
Responsibilities
- Design and operate Azure infrastructure as code with Terraform, including networking, Azure Container Apps, managed databases, and CI/CD pipelines
- Build and own high-throughput Python and FastAPI services and data layers for real-time sensor data ingestion and streaming
- Define next-generation platform architecture with engineering teams
- Own platform security, reliability, and observability, including identity and access, secrets management, network isolation, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Scale the production platform as sensor fleets, customers, and deployments grow
Skills
AWSAzureBicepCloud RunCloudFormationDatadogDockerECSFargateGCPGoKubernetesPostgreSQLPub/SubPulumiPythonRedisTerraformTimescaleDBCloudWatchKafkaOktaOpenTelemetry
Industry
Defense technologyRadar systemsReal-time sensor data
Relocation
Yes