Cloud Engineer

DE Shaw; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 73,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Professional growth

Remote work option

Job summary

DE Shaw in Columbus, OH is seeking a Cloud Engineer who treats flaky tests as clues, not noise. This data-honest role offers ownership of Teamwork projects and a compensation range of $73,000 to $110,000 with unlimited PTO.

You will build internal tooling, automate pipelines, and help the Columbus team scale, with the option to relocate or work remotely and grow under a manager committed to your professional development.

Qualifications

• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Willingness to relocate to Columbus, OH, or to make remote work
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
• Working knowledge of Teamwork alongside transferable Bash Scripting chops
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal
• The integrity to flag your own mistakes first

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Push Python changes safely behind flags so Columbus, OH rollbacks take seconds
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
• Automate the manual Emotional Intelligence chores that quietly drain Columbus, OH engineering hours
• Decide when to buy Python versus build it for DE Shaw's Columbus, OH stack
• Tune Terraform caching so DE Shaw survives the Columbus launch spike on the same hardware
• Chase down the AWS Lambda integration that silently drops DE Shaw events at midnight

Skills

Written communication

Reliability

Relocation flexibility

Remote work

Teamwork

Disagree respectfully

Integrity

Tools

Python

Terraform

Bash scripting

AWS Lambda

Teamwork

CI/CD

Job description

The right Cloud Engineer sees a flaky test not as noise but as a clue, and DE Shaw in Columbus, OH has clues worth chasing. This data-honest role offers $73,000 - $110,000, full ownership of Teamwork projects, and the support of a team that ships together.

Key Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Push Python changes safely behind flags so Columbus, OH rollbacks take seconds
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
• Automate the manual Emotional Intelligence chores that quietly drain Columbus, OH engineering hours
• Decide when to buy Python versus build it for DE Shaw's Columbus, OH stack
• Tune Terraform caching so DE Shaw survives the Columbus launch spike on the same hardware
• Chase down the AWS Lambda integration that silently drops DE Shaw events at midnight

What You'll Bring

• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Willingness to relocate to Columbus, OH, or to make remote work
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
• Working knowledge of Teamwork alongside transferable Bash Scripting chops
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal
• The integrity to flag your own mistakes first

Somewhere between a startup and an institution, DE Shaw has spent years perfecting Python for clients all over Columbus, OH. We reward the teammate who unblocks three colleagues over the one who quietly hero-codes alone.

The compensation here starts at $73,000 - $110,000, paired with unlimited PTO and a manager committed to your professional growth.

The DE Shaw team is scaling in Columbus, OH, and we are hiring for it now.

We welcome applications from driven professionals ready to make an impact.