Senior Cloud Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

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San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) match

Parental leave

Mental health support

Learning stipend

Remote & Office

Job summary

Handshake seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to shape the Agentic Infrastructure that powers our engineering teams. You will design, deploy, and evolve cloud infrastructure, codifying best practices and automating processes so developers can move quickly and safely.

This is a hands-on, architecture-forward role with impact across production and development environments. You’ll lead Terraform/Crossplane IaC, build CI/CD pipelines with Buildkite, and guide the team on Kubernetes-native architectures.

Qualifications

Production workloads on cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) at scale.
Terraform or Crossplane for policy-driven IaC.
CI/CD tooling: Buildkite or GitHub Actions; GitOps with ArgoCD/Flux.

Responsibilities

Architect and manage scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure across production and development environments.
Define and enforce best practices for cloud deployments to ship safely and confidently.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite) and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline from commit to production.
Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Crossplane, or similar tools.
Drive platform improvements that reduce toil and increase developer velocity.
Explore AI-driven approaches to infrastructure automation, observability, and incident response.
Collaborate with engineering to design cloud-native systems from the ground up.
Mentor engineers on cloud best practices and patterns.

Skills

GCP

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Crossplane

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

GitOps

ArgoCD

Flux

Kubernetes

Containerization

AI in Infra

Communication

Documentation

FinOps

Platform engineering

CloudSecurity

IAM

SIEM

Service mesh

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

About Handshake

Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.

Why join Handshake now:

Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family & peers can see & feel

Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners & the world's top educational institutions

Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, & Palantir, among others

Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

The Role

At Handshake, we believe the infrastructure you build should be as thoughtful as the product it supports. We're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer on the Agentic Infrastructure team who's excited to shape the foundation that our engineering teams build on — someone who sees infrastructure not as plumbing, but as a product in itself.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll be at the center of how we design, deploy, and evolve our cloud infrastructure. You'll work closely with engineering, platform, and security teams to define patterns that scale — and make it genuinely easy for developers to do the right thing. You'll codify best practices, champion automation, and bring a modern, opinionated perspective on how cloud-native infrastructure should work.

This isn't a \"keep the lights on\" role. You'll be architecting systems, writing the playbooks others follow, and pushing us toward a more intelligent, automated infrastructure future.

What You'll Do

Architect and manage scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure across our production and development environments

Define and enforce best practices for cloud deployments, making it easy for teams to ship safely and confidently

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (we use Buildkite) and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline how code gets from commit to production

Own and evolve our Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, Crossplane, or similar IaC tooling

Drive platform improvements that reduce toil and increase developer velocity

Explore and implement AI-driven approaches to infrastructure automation, observability, and incident response

Partner with engineering teams to design systems that are cloud-native from the ground up

Mentor engineers across the organization on cloud best practices and patterns

You Have

Deep hands-on experience with GCP (strongly preferred), AWS, or Azure — you've run production workloads at scale and know where the bodies are buried

Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or experience with Crossplane or similar policy-driven IaC

Fluency with modern CI/CD tooling — Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar — and a strong GitOps mindset with tools like ArgoCD or Flux

Experience designing container-based and Kubernetes-native architectures

A genuine curiosity about applying AI and automation to infrastructure problems — whether that's smarter alerting, self-healing systems, or LLM-assisted runbooks