Senior Cloud Engineer: Scale Global Infra & Automation

Fandom; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vibrant team culture

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision

Training (Udemy + more)

Flexible hours and time off

Equity & retirement including 401K

Paid parental leave

International startup culture

Job summary

Fandom is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to scale and support infrastructure powering a platform used by hundreds of millions of fans worldwide. This hands-on role focuses on building reliable, scalable Linux‑ and Kubernetes‑based systems, with a strong emphasis on automation, CI/CD, and security.

You will work within the TechOps team, collaborating with developers and other infrastructure groups, helping ensure the platform remains fast, stable, and secure as Fandom grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Technical/Network Operations, DevOps, or SRE for large-scale production platforms

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and scale high-availability routing architectures across on-prem, AWS, and GCP
• Manage IaC with Terraform and Chef for Kubernetes, Cloudflare, and CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain and optimize large-scale production environments with MySQL replication, failover, DR, and monitoring
• Develop internal tools for automation, backups, performance tuning, and security monitoring
• Lead planning meetings, retrospectives, and RCAs to drive operational excellence
• Participate in on-call rotation and mentor cross-functional teams

Skills

Linux administration

Networking protocols

Go/Python/Bash

Kubernetes

CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins)

MySQL replication/failover

AI tools for productivity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

Fandom is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to scale and support infrastructure powering a platform used by hundreds of millions of fans worldwide. This hands-on role focuses on building reliable, scalable Linux‑ and Kubernetes‑based systems, with a strong emphasis on automation, CI/CD, and security.

You will work within the TechOps team, collaborating with developers and other infrastructure groups, helping ensure the platform remains fast, stable, and secure as Fandom grows.