Staff Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

the company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Cloud) to own the data infrastructure and cloud systems powering its autonomous driving platform. You will design scalable pipelines, manage AWS-based infrastructure, and build CI/CD and IaC tooling to enable reliable experimentation and production workloads.

You will collaborate with autonomy and systems engineers to define scalable data interfaces and cloud deployment strategies while driving observability and security.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud infrastructure and data systems experience in large-scale distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that move operational data from on-prem systems into cloud infrastructure.
• Architect and manage cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) for scalable computation, data processing, and system telemetry.
• Integrate on-prem and cloud data flows into a cohesive, reliable data architecture.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable software delivery and validation across simulation and real-world testing environments.
• Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for consistent, automated provisioning.
• Develop internal services and automation tools to streamline data ingestion, processing, and observability.
• Establish and enforce best practices for data reliability, pipeline observability, and system security.
• Drive root-cause analysis for data infrastructure and pipeline issues; design long-term solutions to improve system resilience.
• Collaborate with autonomy and systems engineers to define scalable data interfaces and cloud deployment strategies.

Skills

Python data pipelines

Data pipeline automation

Distributed systems design

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

gRPC

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Docker

Job description

the company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Cloud) to own the data infrastructure and cloud systems powering its autonomous driving platform. You will design scalable pipelines, manage AWS-based infrastructure, and build CI/CD and IaC tooling to enable reliable experimentation and production workloads.

You will collaborate with autonomy and systems engineers to define scalable data interfaces and cloud deployment strategies while driving observability and security.