Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Fast-growing software company San Francisco, California $155k to $180k USD base a year

raydar; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Raydar in San Francisco is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own and run cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and security controls. You will work hands-on to design, implement, and operate scalable cloud environments across two regions and ensure cost efficiency.

Ideal candidates have 2–5 years of hands-on cloud/DevOps experience, familiarity with AWS, and strong IaC skills using Terraform or CloudFormation. This is an on-site, full-time role in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability experience.
• Experience designing and running production CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on history of creating a cloud environment in a young company, not inherited.
• Experience operating production systems on AWS, including compute, networking, identity, storage and databases.
• Infrastructure as code experience in production with a common tool.

Responsibilities

• Design, refactor and maintain build and deployment pipelines across two cloud environments.
• Set up cloud architecture and security controls, including access policies, network isolation, encryption, and logging.
• Codify environments as infrastructure definitions and implement observability and runbooks.
• Set up networking and access for internal compute resources.
• Improve performance, availability and cloud cost efficiency, and support security reviews.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

CI/CD

AWS

Infrastructure as code

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

# Cloud Infrastructure EngineerFast-growing software company* LocationSan Francisco, California* TypeFull-time* Posted29 October 2026Apply for this roleThe role, as published## About the companyOur client is a fast-growing software company.## The roleRaydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a small product team as its sole infrastructure engineer. The work covers release automation, cloud security, infrastructure as code, monitoring and cost efficiency, all as a hands-on individual contributor who builds and runs the systems directly.## What you'll do* **Design**, refactor and maintain build and deployment pipelines for several applications and internal workflows across two cloud environments.* **Set up cloud architecture and security controls**, including access policies, network isolation, encryption, secrets handling, logging and automated vulnerability management.* **Partner with the technical** lead and a small engineering group to provide reliable, observable and easily reversible releases.* Codify environments as infrastructure definitions, and put in place observability, paging, data protection and outage playbooks across development, staging and production.* **Set up networking** and access for internal compute resources so engineers can use them independently.* **Improve performance**, availability and cloud cost efficiency, and support customer security reviews with documented controls and evidence.## What we're looking for* **2 to 5 years** of hands-on cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering or site reliability experience.* Experience designing and running production CI/CD and deployment pipelines.* A hands-on history of creating a cloud environment in a young company or compact group, not just inheriting one.* Experience operating production systems on AWS, including compute, networking, identity, storage and databases.* Infrastructure as code experience in production with a common tool.* Comfort working independently and owning work end to end on a fast-moving team.## Bonus points* Experience with government cloud or other regulated cloud environments with strict compliance requirements.* Broader security expertise, for example writing security policies, offensive testing or vulnerability research.## Location and work model* San Francisco, CA, United States* On-site, 5 days a week* Full-time## Compensation, as the posting describes it* **Base salary:** USD 155,000 to 180,000* EquityPay$155k to $180kUSD base a year