Senior Cloud Ops Engineer - Platform & FinOps Lead

Moonshot Factory; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

X, the Moonshot Factory in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a Cloud Operations Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure across multi-region environments. You will guide architecture, security, and cost management while enabling developer platforms and streamlined CI/CD.

Strong bias for scalable, secure systems and collaboration across platform teams is required. Ideal candidates have deep cloud experience, IaC, and a track record of building high-throughput systems in a startup-like setting.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript; Rust is a bonus.
• Terraform and cloud security knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable, multi-region cloud infrastructure.
• Lead cloud initiatives focusing on microservices, serverless patterns, and zero-trust security controls.
• Build and maintain a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for provisioning and testing code.
• Streamline CI/CD with security scanning, guardrails, and compliance requirements.
• Serve as escalation authority for production incidents and conduct blameless post-mortems.
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across core services.
• Support FinOps practices and cost attribution for cloud spend.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Python

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Distributed systems

Security

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Job description

X, the Moonshot Factory in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a Cloud Operations Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure across multi-region environments. You will guide architecture, security, and cost management while enabling developer platforms and streamlined CI/CD.

Strong bias for scalable, secure systems and collaboration across platform teams is required. Ideal candidates have deep cloud experience, IaC, and a track record of building high-throughput systems in a startup-like setting.