Staff Cloud Architect — AI-Native Infra & Automation

Arc XP; United States; On-site; USD 132,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive medical, dental and vision

401(k) match

Paid holidays and time off

Job summary

Arc XP seeks a Staff Software Engineer for Cloud & AI to shape cloud architecture and AI-native workloads across the platform. You will lead AWS architecture, CI/CD, and IaC, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure and guardrails for productive developer experiences.

You will mentor engineers, partner with security and data teams, and drive cost-efficient, observable, and resilient edge and AI-enabled systems that power worldwide content delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing scalable, distributed systems as a technical leader or architect.
• Deep AWS expertise (Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, CloudFormation, IAM, DynamoDB) and CI/CD with IaC.
• Proficiency in Python and Node.js; Go or Java also used.
• Identity protocols (SAML, SSO, MFA, OAuth) and gateways (NGINX, API Gateway, Okta).
• Hands-on experience integrating AI into production systems and understanding inference costs.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or related field welcome; equivalent experience considered.

Responsibilities

• Reduce lead time for change by owning Arc's AWS architecture and automation across CI/CD and IaC.
• Establish paved roads, reference architectures, and reusable components with guardrails.
• Drive scale and cost decisions with attention to AI and edge workloads and monitor signals.
• Shorten path to production by designing self-service build, deploy, scale capabilities.
• Design developer platforms with security and readiness built in.
• Track metrics like lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and time to restore service.

Skills

8+ years designing scalable systems

AWS architecture

Python & Node.js

Go or Java

Identity protocols (SAML, SSO, MFA, O"

APIs and gateways

AI in production

Bachelor's degree welcome (equivalents

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or related field

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

NGINX

AWS API Gateway

Amazon Bedrock

SageMaker

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Arc XP seeks a Staff Software Engineer for Cloud & AI to shape cloud architecture and AI-native workloads across the platform. You will lead AWS architecture, CI/CD, and IaC, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure and guardrails for productive developer experiences.

You will mentor engineers, partner with security and data teams, and drive cost-efficient, observable, and resilient edge and AI-enabled systems that power worldwide content delivery.