Cloud Engineering Principal — Enterprise AWS Leader

Early Warning; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Maven family planning

Job summary

Early Warning seeks a Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering to lead cloud strategy, architecture standards, and the enterprise AWS migration. You will drive scalable, secure cloud-native solutions and partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment.

You will establish infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform, mentor engineers, and influence long-term platform sustainability across teams in a hybrid, US-wide environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 15 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related roles.
• 5 years designing and operating AWS-scale solutions.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services (compute, storage, networking, identity).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Linux environments, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead cloud engineering strategy, reference architectures, and standards for AWS-based infrastructure.
• Design scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native solutions.
• Lead root-cause analysis for incidents and improve platform reliability.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform and related tooling.
• Collaborate with Security, Risk, and Compliance to meet regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical leadership for audits and governance.
• Architect disaster recovery, high availability, and observability strategies.
• Mentor engineers and document architectural guidance.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Cloud architecture

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Early Warning seeks a Principal Engineer - Cloud Engineering to lead cloud strategy, architecture standards, and the enterprise AWS migration. You will drive scalable, secure cloud-native solutions and partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment.

You will establish infrastructure-as-code patterns with Terraform, mentor engineers, and influence long-term platform sustainability across teams in a hybrid, US-wide environment.