Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure / Terraform)

CHAOS Industries•San Francisco, CA

9h•$140,000 - $240,000•Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Industries is hiring a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale the cloud platform behind its radar systems. The role designs, builds, and operates infrastructure and backend services that move mission-critical sensor data from field radars to operators. The platform is already in production and must scale as sensors, customers, and deployments grow. The engineer will also help define the next-generation platform in collaboration with engineering teams across the company. The position is based on-site in San Francisco, California. The listed base salary range is $140,000–$240,000, excluding equity, bonuses, and benefits. Candidates must be a U.S. Person under U.S. export control regulations and be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Requirements

Experience building and operating production infrastructure in a major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP), defined as code with Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, or CloudFormation.
Experience running containerized production workloads with Docker on a managed platform such as Azure Container Apps, ECS/Fargate, Cloud Run, or Kubernetes.
Strong cloud networking fundamentals, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancers, private endpoints, and firewalls.
Experience building and operating production backend services in Python, Go, or a similar language, with an understanding of concurrency, asynchronous I/O, connection pooling, and resource limits under load.
Fluency in distributed systems, including consistency, replication, partitioning, caching, back-pressure, idempotency, and graceful degradation.
Experience scaling a production system beyond its original design and addressing resulting failures.
A secure-by-default approach, including least-privilege access, keeping secrets out of code, and hardened and patched systems.
Must be a U.S. Person as defined under U.S. export control regulations.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or other regulated environments, including FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171, or NIST 800-53.
Experience with real-time and streaming data systems such as WebSockets, server-sent events, pub/sub, or message queues.
Experience with identity and cloud security, including Entra ID, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, managed identities, service-to-service authentication, or policy as code.

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 (FastAPI) services and their data layer, including PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Redis, and Cosmos DB, for real-time sensor data.
Own security, reliability, and observability, including identity and access, secrets, network isolation, monitoring and alerting with Datadog, and incident response.
Scale the production platform as sensors, customers, and deployments grow.
Define the architecture of the next-generation platform with engineering teams across the company.