Staff Cloud Infra & Data Pipelines Engineer

AeroVect; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Cloud) to own data infrastructure powering our autonomous driving platform. You will design scalable pipelines moving data from on-prem to cloud, and manage cloud infrastructure for performance and reliability.

The role offers ownership from ground up with room to grow into technical leadership as the team scales, collaborating with autonomy and systems engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/EE or related field.
• 7+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure and data systems for large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient in Python for data pipeline development.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, and gRPC for scalable data systems.
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services including compute, storage, and data processing.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI).
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience automating deployments with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with Git-based workflows and collaborative software development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that move operational data from on-prem systems into cloud infrastructure.
• Architect and manage cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) for scalable computation, data processing, and system telemetry.
• Integrate on-prem and cloud data flows into a cohesive, reliable data architecture.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable software delivery and validation across simulation and real-world testing environments.
• Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for consistent, automated provisioning.
• Develop internal services and automation tools to streamline data ingestion, processing, and observability.
• Establish and enforce best practices for data reliability, pipeline observability, and system security.
• Drive root-cause analysis for data infrastructure and pipeline issues; design long-term solutions to improve system resilience.
• Collaborate with autonomy and systems engineers to define scalable data interfaces and cloud deployment strategies.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/EE or related field

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

gRPC

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Jenkins

Job description

AeroVect is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Cloud) to own data infrastructure powering our autonomous driving platform. You will design scalable pipelines moving data from on-prem to cloud, and manage cloud infrastructure for performance and reliability.

The role offers ownership from ground up with room to grow into technical leadership as the team scales, collaborating with autonomy and systems engineers.