Senior Cloud Engineer

Fandom • San Francisco, CA

2d • $122,000 - $204,000

About The Position

Fandom is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to evolve and support the infrastructure powering its platform. This hands-on role focuses on building reliable, scalable systems in a Linux and Kubernetes environment. As part of the TechOps team, the engineer reports to the Manager of TechOps and collaborates with developers, product engineers, and infrastructure teams on CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and cloud initiatives.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in Technical/Network Operations, DevOps, or SRE roles managing large-scale production platforms, such as platforms with 10 million or more monthly active users.
• Deep proficiency in Linux systems administration, networking protocols such as TCP/IP and routing, secure systems practices, and scripting or programming in Go, Python, or Bash.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins, and monitoring and reliability systems such as Prometheus.
• Practical experience managing production MySQL environments, including replication topologies, failover mechanisms, and performance tuning.
• Experience using generative AI tools such as Gemini or NotebookLM to improve productivity, with the ability to critically verify outputs for accuracy, security, and context.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Cloudflare expertise, including CDN optimization, WAF security, DNS management, edge performance tuning, and Cloudflare Tunnels.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, edge caching, and centralized log management using the ELK stack.
• Experience defining SLOs and instrumentation, implementing meaningful metrics, logs, and traces, reducing alert noise, and driving postmortem action items.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and scale highly available routing architectures that balance and secure global user traffic across on-premise datacenters, AWS, and GCP.
• Manage and automate cloud and edge infrastructure as code using Terraform and Chef, including configurations for Kubernetes, Cloudflare services, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain and optimize large-scale production environments, including high-availability MySQL replication, automated failover, disaster recovery, and system monitoring.
• Develop internal tools for operational automation, system and data backups, performance tuning, and security monitoring.
• Lead planning meetings, retrospectives, and root-cause analyses, and evaluate systems against industry best practices.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to incidents, maintain production stability, and collaborate with and mentor cross-functional engineering teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Training, including unlimited Udemy access.
• Flexible working hours and time off.
• Equity and retirement programs, including a 401(k) match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Vibrant team culture and an international work environment with a start-up culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed