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Own the architecture, security, segmentation, connectivity, and operation of a multi-region AWS network supporting regulated financial services. Lead cloud routing, partner VPN and Direct Connect connectivity, zero-trust access, Terraform-based infrastructure, observability, incident escalation, disaster recovery, and failover. Partner with Security on compliance and threat-model requirements, apply AI-native operational workflows, establish network standards, and mentor engineers. The role is hybrid, requiring three days onsite weekly in San Francisco or Culver City.

Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer responsible for architecting and operating AWS infrastructure supporting regulated financial services. The role owns EKS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, networking, security, cost optimization, and AI/ML infrastructure. It provides technical leadership through architecture decisions, cross-functional initiatives, incident escalation, mentoring, and platform standardization. The position requires deep AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, Linux, networking, database, and reliability expertise, with hybrid work in Culver City or San Francisco.

Own quality for distributed backend services across API, contract, event, and database layers. Build Java-based test automation, validate service contracts and data, test asynchronous workflows, authentication, authorization, and configuration consistency, and integrate suites into GitLab CI/CD. Partner with platform engineers to improve testability, assess regression scope, manage defects in Jira, and drive continuous quality improvement across agile teams.

Lead backend engineering initiatives focused on secure, scalable, and reliable distributed systems. Design identity and access management capabilities, strengthen AWS infrastructure, optimize databases, harden APIs and services, improve observability, and drive incident remediation. Mentor engineers, own cross-service problems end to end, and partner with security teams to deliver durable solutions across customer-facing applications and platforms.

Build and scale secure, reliable backend services and web applications for a fintech wealth management platform. Responsibilities include identity and access management, AWS infrastructure, database optimization, API and distributed-systems hardening, production reliability, observability, incident response, and security remediation. The role independently delivers solutions from design through production, mentors engineers, and partners with security leadership. This is a hybrid position requiring three office days weekly in San Francisco.

Leads the Cloud Infrastructure and Platform team, setting roadmap, managing and mentoring engineers, and making AWS architecture decisions. Owns Kubernetes and infrastructure platforms, disaster recovery, database reliability, software supply-chain security, CI/CD, observability, on-call operations, incident response, developer self-service, cloud costs, and audit evidence automation. The role requires hands-on technical leadership in regulated financial services environments.

Build and maintain security detections across SIEM, cloud, endpoint, and identity telemetry. Investigate alerts, lead incident response, threat-hunt for sophisticated and insider activity, and operationalize threat intelligence. Develop SOAR playbooks and automation, improve logging and detection efficacy using MITRE ATT&CK, collaborate with MDR and incident-response partners, and conduct purple-team exercises.

Own the architecture, security, segmentation, connectivity, observability, and operations of a multi-region AWS network supporting regulated financial services. Lead AWS networking, partner VPN and Direct Connect connectivity, zero-trust and SASE adoption, Terraform-based infrastructure, disaster recovery, incident escalation, and AI-native operational workflows. Establish network standards, collaborate with Security, and mentor engineers while ensuring resiliency and audit readiness.

Own the reliability, performance, resilience, and cost of a multi-terabyte Aurora PostgreSQL estate. Lead multi-region disaster recovery, database segmentation, capacity planning, partitioning, replication, upgrades, change data capture, schema governance, observability, and incident response. Build automation, support security and compliance controls, mentor engineers, and influence long-term data architecture across teams.

Build and improve scalable, resilient backend systems across product teams. Responsibilities include implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, establishing SLOs, owning incident response processes, mentoring teams on secure and reliable coding practices, and applying automated testing. The role collaborates with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners on shared infrastructure, performance, and distributed-systems challenges. This is a hybrid position requiring at least three office days per week in Los Angeles or San Francisco.