Staff AI Cloud Engineer & Tech Lead

G-; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid parental leave

Flexible time off

Spending accounts

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Sabbatical after 5 years

Job summary

G-P is hiring a hands-on technical leader to raise the engineering bar across our teams. You will partner with Engineering Managers and senior engineers to improve architecture, design, CI/CD, infrastructure, and engineering practices while remaining an active individual contributor shipping production code.

This is not a traditional architect role; you will build systems, create practical guardrails, and help teams make better technical decisions without becoming a bottleneck.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of architecture experience.
• Founding engineer with startup-scale experience.
• Ability to influence multiple teams without formal authority.
• Resourceful and independent to own and operate across teams.
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
• Deep expertise in AI, backend or distributed systems, infrastructure and cloud architecture.
• Practical understanding of modern AI systems including foundation models, inference, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, latency and cost.
• Strong working knowledge of full-stack development.
• Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and technical leads on complex system-design decisions.
• Lead technical designs, RFCs, architecture reviews, and critical code reviews.
• Build and ship production systems across AI, backend, cloud, infrastructure, and full-stack applications.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Create reusable platforms, libraries, reference implementations, and paved roads for teams.
• Help design and operate production AI systems, including model integration, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure and help resolve complex production issues.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical quality through hands‑on leadership.
• Ensure engineering standards remain effective after they are introduced.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Founding engineer

Cross-team influence

Production systems

AI systems

Cloud architecture

Full-stack development

Python/Go/TypeScript

Kubernetes

Security & reliability

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tooling

Job description

G-P is hiring a hands-on technical leader to raise the engineering bar across our teams. You will partner with Engineering Managers and senior engineers to improve architecture, design, CI/CD, infrastructure, and engineering practices while remaining an active individual contributor shipping production code.

This is not a traditional architect role; you will build systems, create practical guardrails, and help teams make better technical decisions without becoming a bottleneck.