Staff Software Engineer(Cloudops)

Qualifications

• Professional Experience
• 6+ years of experience in Cloud Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Distributed Systems Infrastructure.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating AI tools, LLMs, or predictive analytics into deployment workflows, pipelines, or software platforms.
• Proven track record of architecting and operating large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Soft Skills & Mindset Agentic Problem-Solving: A mindset that moves past "how do I automate this task?" to "how do I build an autonomous system that solves this permanently?"
• Collaborative AI-First Culture: Ability to partner with Core AI/ML teams to bridge the gap between model deployment and high-availability cloud infrastructure.
• Compensation Disclosure
• The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
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