Staff Cloud Engineer — Distributed Systems & Azure

Chaos, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with company match

Free daily lunch

No meeting Fridays

Unlimited PTO

Casual dress code

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is building a secure cloud platform behind radar systems. You will work alongside software, hardware, and systems engineers to design and operate backend services that ingest, process, and deliver mission‑critical sensor data at scale.

This high‑ownership role lets you influence architecture, implement infrastructure as code, and advance reliability, security, and performance in demanding environments.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to learn quickly.
• Own production services and scalable backend systems.
• Solve cloud infrastructure and distributed systems challenges.
• Prioritize reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across software, hardware, and systems teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure powering distributed radar systems and backend services.
• Develop high-performance backend services to ingest, process, and distribute real-time sensor data.
• Define infrastructure as code and automate deployments with modern DevOps practices.
• Own observability, monitoring, resiliency, and operational readiness for production systems.
• Help shape platform architecture to support new capabilities and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with software, hardware, and systems engineers to deliver end-to-end secure capabilities.

Skills

Backend systems

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Reliability & security

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

TypeScript/React

Job description

CHAOS Industries is building a secure cloud platform behind radar systems. You will work alongside software, hardware, and systems engineers to design and operate backend services that ingest, process, and deliver mission‑critical sensor data at scale.

This high‑ownership role lets you influence architecture, implement infrastructure as code, and advance reliability, security, and performance in demanding environments.