Staff Engineer Cloud Scalability

Hypori; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 174,600 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with employer matching

Performance bonus

Job summary

Hypori, a rapidly growing SaaS company in Reston, VA, is seeking a Staff Scalability Engineer. In this role, you will optimize and enhance our cloud systems to manage increasing global demand. The ideal candidate will have comprehensive experience with AWS services and Infrastructure as Code tools.

This position offers a competitive salary range of $174,600 - $220,000 and includes various employee benefits, such as medical insurance, a 401(k) plan, and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles.
• Proficiency in AWS native services and Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Experience with performance testing tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Define best practices for scalability and reliability.
• Implement micro-service infrastructure and monitor performance.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

AWS proficiency

Kubernetes

Scripting/automation

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudWatch

GitHub

Job description

Hypori, Inc. is a high-growth cybersecurity SaaS company transforming how organizations think about secure mobility. Our virtual workspace platform enables users to access enterprise apps and data from any mobile device—without data on the endpoint and with total personal privacy.

Overview

We are looking for a Staff Scalability Engineer with expertise in Cloud systems (preferably AWS) to lead optimization, monitoring, and tuning our existing cloud infrastructure. You will play a crucial role in identifying and implementing changes to our application’s infrastructure and architecture to improve platform availability and scalability. This role will work across multiple, small, cross‑functional engineering groups to help our application meet rapidly growing, global demand.

Responsibilities

• Lead capacity planning, autoscaling, and performance optimization across our application.
• Define and enforce best practices for scalability, reliability, observability, and infrastructure resilience.
• Conduct architectural reviews and propose improvements to enhance performance and cost efficiency.
• Partner with engineering teams on the implementation of micro‑service infrastructure (API gateways, containerization strategies, etc.) with an eye toward data contract and scalability best practices.
• Implement and improve metrics systems to diagnose performance bottlenecks using modern tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, X‑Ray, OpenTelemetry, Splunk).
• Partner with engineering teams to help enforce SLOs/SLAs.
• Lead incident response initiatives for high‑severity cloud infrastructure issues.
• Provide solutions to enable production teams to measure and predict cloud costs against resource utilization.
• Participate periodically in an on‑call, production assistance and escalation schedule.
• Use LLM tools such as Claude Code for automation and support.

Qualifications

• Minimal 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or commensurate experience.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation).
• Deep familiarity with AWS native services, particularly: ECS, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, KMS, RDS and related configurations.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.
• Strong scripting/automation experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
• Experience in designing or using profiling tools and performance test frameworks (e.g., AppDynamics, Jaeger, VisualVM).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, caching, event‑driven architecture, and performance tuning.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (BitBucket, GitHub, Jenkins).
• Excellent problem‑solving and diagnostic abilities in large‑scale distributed environments.
• Experience in high‑traffic, globally distributed environments.
• Experience with zero‑downtime migrations and multi‑region deployments.
• Must be a US citizen or green card holder.

Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self‑directed, capable of working with multiple, small engineering teams.
• AWS Professional certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• High level of integrity and a keen sense of urgency and results orientation.
• Able to work in multiple, concurrent, complex software projects.

Pay range

$174,600 - $220,000 USD

Benefits

Full‑time employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, parental leave, and life and disability packages. The company offers a 401(k) plan with employer‑matching contributions that vest starting from the first day of employment. In addition to base compensation, a performance bonus is offered, primarily contingent upon company‑wide performance.

Hypori is an Equal Employment and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact [e-mail] for assistance.