Senior Software Engineer - Public Cloud Engineering

Bloomberg•New York, NY

1d•$160,000 - $240,000

About The Position

The Public Cloud Engineering organization provides the foundational platforms, services, and guardrails that enable Bloomberg to use public cloud technologies. Its work spans security, governance, identity, networking, observability, deployment, and compute, helping engineering teams safely and efficiently develop, deploy, and operate solutions across public cloud environments. The role will be aligned to one or more platform domains: Cloud Adoption & Governance; Compute Platforms; Compute Deployment; Networking & Connectivity Platform; or Identity & Access Platform. Engineers collaborate across Public Cloud Engineering to deliver a cohesive cloud experience for Bloomberg’s engineering community. The engineer will build and evolve foundational platforms supporting Bloomberg’s public cloud strategy, design solutions that enable secure and efficient cloud adoption, and improve platform capabilities, automation, developer experience, and operational excellence. The role partners with stakeholders across Engineering, Security, SRE, and Infrastructure organizations.

Requirements

At least 4 years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering experience.
Strong programming skills in one or more modern programming languages, such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.
Experience designing, building, or operating production systems at scale.
Strong Linux/Unix fundamentals.
Experience with one or more public cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform.
Strong understanding of software engineering principles, distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for automation and drive solutions from design through implementation.
A strong sense of ownership and desire to solve complex technical problems.

Nice To Haves

Experience building internal developer platforms, cloud platforms, or self-service engineering capabilities.
Experience in cloud governance, security, and compliance automation.
Experience in identity and access management.
Experience with secrets, certificate, or key management systems.
Experience in cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, and network automation.
Experience with compute platforms, runtime environments, and workload orchestration.
Experience in software supply chain security and trusted deployment systems.
Experience in observability, telemetry, reliability engineering, and incident management.
Experience with platform APIs, orchestration systems, and developer tooling.
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
Experience building highly available, distributed systems.
Experience contributing to shared platforms used by multiple engineering teams.
Experience working in large-scale enterprise or regulated environments.
Contributions to open-source software or cloud-native communities.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate scalable platform capabilities that enable Bloomberg's adoption of public cloud technologies.
Develop self-service tooling, APIs, automation, and workflows that improve the developer experience and reduce operational complexity.
Partner with engineering, security, SRE, and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and drive platform adoption.
Build reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions within the assigned platform domain while contributing to broader Public Cloud Engineering initiatives.
Use software engineering and infrastructure-as-code practices to automate platform operations and improve service quality.
Help define standards, best practices, and paved-road experiences for engineering teams building on public cloud.
Contribute to the architecture, implementation, and long-term evolution of Bloomberg's public cloud platforms.