Staff Cloud Engineer - AWS

Staff Cloud Engineer (AWS)

The world still has coverage blind spots. You could help eliminate them at Skylo.

Skylo has pioneered a standards-based approach to satellite connectivity. We connect smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites. No special hardware, no entirely new networks. Just billions of existing devices, suddenly reachable anywhere on Earth. We're not building toward this future. We're already in it.

Our direct-to-device service is live on millions of activated devices across five continents, covering more than 72 million square kilometers, in partnership with leading satellite operators, mobile network operators, Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs worldwide. And we're just getting started.

At the heart of it all is Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN: a 3

GPP standards-based, cloud-native platform that seamlessly bridges terrestrial and satellite networks. It's the infrastructure that makes true anywhere, anytime connectivity possible.

When you join Skylo, you'll work at the intersection of three markets reshaping how the world stays connected: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT. Enabling people outdoors and critical workflows in the world's most remote places.

This is a rare chance to work on technology that matters, at a company that's already proving it works

Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites.

Skylo's direct-to-device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3

GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT.

This role is located Mountain View, CA where we are onsite 3 days a week in office.

Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo

Skylo is hiring a Staff Cloud Engineer (AWS) to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our AWS-based cloud infrastructure. As a senior technical expert, you will shape our cloud architecture, drive automation, and ensure scalability, reliability, and security across our environments. This role requires deep AWS expertise, a passion for solving complex infrastructure challenges, and the ability to influence engineering direction while remaining hands-on.

How You Will Contribute

Architecture & Design

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS architectures.
• Define best practices for compute (EC2, ECS, EKS), storage (S3, EBS, EFS), and networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect).
• Architect solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Partner with application teams to design cloud-native solutions optimized for AWS.

Infrastructure Engineering & Automation

• Drive Infrastructure as Code initiatives (Terraform, Pulumi, or Cloud Formation).
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management.
• Improve observability and operational efficiency through logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Lead performance tuning and capacity planning for critical workloads.

Security & Compliance

• Embed AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, Guard Duty, Security Hub).
• Partner with the security team to ensure compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Implement zero-trust principles and least-privilege access controls.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical leader and mentor for cloud and Dev Ops engineers.
• Influence long-term cloud strategy, tooling, and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, and engineering teams.
• Participate in design reviews, architecture boards, and technical roadmaps.

What We Look For

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with at least 5+ focused on AWS.
• Proven expertise with AWS core services (EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Route 53).
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or Cloud Formation).
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and service mesh architectures.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity management.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation (Python, Go, Bash).
• Strong knowledge of observability tooling (Cloud Watch, Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, etc.).
• Excellent communication, mentorship, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• AWS
  
  Certifications:
  
  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer – Professional.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with multi-account strategy and AWS…