Staff Cloud & AI Architect - AI-Native & Edge

Arc XP

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 132,000 - 219,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive medical, dental and vision
Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
Paid vacation and holidays
Parental leave

Job summary

Arc XP, a platform for media publishers, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for Cloud & AI to architect AI-native cloud infrastructure and delivery at scale. You will own AWS architecture, CI/CD, and automation, while enabling AI-heavy workloads and secure, observable delivery paths across edge and cloud.

You will drive scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and partner with security and data leadership to govern AI risk and cost.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years designing and building highly scalable, distributed systems with leadership/architecture experience.
  • Deep AWS expertise and strong CI/CD plus infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CDK).
  • Proficiency in Python and Node.js; experience with Go or Java.
  • Knowledge of identity protocols (SAML, SSO, MFA, OAuth) and gateway components (NGINX, API Gateway).
  • Strong API design, event-driven systems, microservices, and databases.
  • Hands-on AI/LLM production experience and cost/latency awareness of inference.
  • Experience governing AI tooling within CI/CD and code reviews (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code).
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own AWS architecture and automation across CI/CD, IaC, compute, data, and APIs.
  • Develop paved roads, reference architectures, and reusable components for teams.
  • Ensure performance, resilience, and cost discipline with AI and edge workloads.
  • Improve developer velocity by building self-service build/deploy/scale capabilities.
  • Measure and improve lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and recovery.

Skills

Distributed systems design
AWS cloud
CI/CD
Python
Node.js
Go
Java
SAML/SSO/OAuth
NGINX/API Gateway
AI/LLM integration
GitHub Copilot/Cursor

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform
AWS CDK
Terraform
NGINX
AWS API Gateway

Job description

Arc XP, a platform for media publishers, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for Cloud & AI to architect AI-native cloud infrastructure and delivery at scale. You will own AWS architecture, CI/CD, and automation, while enabling AI-heavy workloads and secure, observable delivery paths across edge and cloud.

You will drive scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and partner with security and data leadership to govern AI risk and cost.

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