Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure) – Real-Time Data

Chaos Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

Free daily lunch onsite

Unlimited PTO

Casual dress code

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco is building the cloud platform behind some of the world’s most advanced radar systems. You’ll design, build, and operate infrastructure and backend services that move mission‑critical sensor data from radars in the field to the operators who depend on it.

The platform is in production and growing fast, and your job is to scale it as our fleet of sensors, customers, and deployments grows.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure in at least one major cloud with code.
• Experience running containerized workloads (Docker) on a managed platform.
• Strong cloud networking fundamentals: virtual networks, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancers, private endpoints, and firewalls.
• Experience backend services in Python/Go and handling high load.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure – design and operate our Azure infrastructure as code with Terraform: networking, Azure Container Apps, managed databases, and the CI/CD pipelines that deploy to them.
• Backend Platform Services – build and own high-throughput Python (FastAPI) services and the data layer behind them (PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Redis, Cosmos DB) that ingest and stream real-time sensor data.
• Platform Architecture – work with engineering teams across the company to define the architecture of the next generation of the platform.
• Operations – own security, reliability, and observability across the platform: identity and access, secrets management, network isolation, monitoring and alerting (Datadog), and incident response.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Async I/O

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB

Redis

Cosmos DB

Job description

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco is building the cloud platform behind some of the world’s most advanced radar systems. You’ll design, build, and operate infrastructure and backend services that move mission‑critical sensor data from radars in the field to the operators who depend on it.

The platform is in production and growing fast, and your job is to scale it as our fleet of sensors, customers, and deployments grows.