Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

HavocAI

1d • $190,000 - $215,000

About The Position

Havoc is seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to drive the design and operation of the cloud platform that powers its autonomous systems. This role is a hands-on, staff-level individual contributor responsible for designing secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure while setting the technical direction for service provisioning, deployment, and operation. The engineer will collaborate with backend, SRE, data, autonomy, and security teams to deliver platform capabilities for mission-critical workloads. This position is ideal for individuals with deep cloud and infrastructure expertise, strong technical judgment, and a desire to tackle complex and ambiguous platform challenges in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or related engineering roles.
• Deep expertise with AWS core services, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed data services.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, including EKS, and containerized environments.
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages for platform tooling and automation.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Ability to drive projects from concept through production.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to operate independently in fast-moving environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance if required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting autonomy, robotics, simulation, real-time systems, or mission-critical platforms.
• Experience designing multi-account AWS organizations and landing zones.
• Familiarity with observability tooling at scale, including metrics, logging, and tracing.
• Knowledge of AWS GovCloud or compliance-driven environments, including FedRAMP, IL4, or IL5.
• Experience with platform engineering, developer experience, self-service infrastructure, or paved-path tooling.
• Experience working in small, fast-moving engineering teams or high-growth technology companies.
• Active or prior security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution and technical excellence across cloud platform projects.
• Set infrastructure standards, conduct design and code reviews, and guide architectural decisions.
• Shape the cloud platform roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
• Foster a culture of ownership, quality, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms, including EKS, and container workflows for application teams.
• Build self-service tooling and paved paths that enable teams to deploy and operate services safely.
• Ensure the platform reliably supports both application and data workloads.
• Design platform capabilities with reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency in mind.
• Optimize cloud systems for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling limits, and reliability risks.
• Establish reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
• Improve observability, maintainability, and operational readiness across cloud platform services.
• Partner with backend, SRE, data, autonomy, and security teams to deliver platform capabilities across the stack.
• Support end-to-end system design from edge devices to cloud infrastructure.
• Coordinate across teams to build and maintain release processes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Help align platform capabilities with product, engineering, security, and mission needs.
• Enforce secure cloud practices, including IAM least privilege, secrets management, and network segmentation.
• Maintain high standards for automation, testing, observability, documentation, and infrastructure reliability.
• Support technical reviews, design discussions, and production readiness efforts.
• Build systems with security, scalability, and long-term maintainability in mind.

Benefits

• 100% Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your families
• Life Insurance (Employer Paid)
• Ability to participate in the companies 401k program (Matching)
• Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum
• Equity Package
• Work / Home Office Stipend
• Global Entry
• 16 Week Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend

What This Job Offers

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