Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Fast-growing software

Position: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Fast-growing software company   $155k to $180k USD base a year
# Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Fast-growing software company
* Location San Francisco, California
* Type Full-time
* Posted
29 October 2026

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The role, as published## About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.## The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a small product team as its sole infrastructure engineer. The work covers release automation, cloud security, infrastructure as code, monitoring and cost efficiency, all as a hands-on individual contributor who builds and runs the systems directly.##

What you'll do
* ** Design**, refactor and maintain build and deployment pipelines for several applications and internal workflows across two cloud environments.
* ** Set up cloud architecture and security controls**, including access policies, network isolation, encryption, secrets handling, logging and automated vulnerability management.
* ** Partner with the technical
** lead and a small engineering group to provide reliable, observable and easily reversible releases.
* Codify environments as infrastructure definitions, and put in place observability, paging, data protection and outage playbooks across development, staging and production.
* ** Set up networking
** and access for internal compute resources so engineers can use them independently.
* ** Improve performance**, availability and cloud cost efficiency, and support customer security reviews with documented controls and evidence.## What we're looking for
* ** 2 to 5 years
** of hands-on cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops, platform engineering or site reliability experience.
* Experience designing and running production CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
* A hands-on history of creating a cloud environment in a young company or compact group, not just inheriting one.
* Experience operating production systems on AWS, including compute, networking, identity, storage and databases.
* Infrastructure as code experience in production with a common tool.
* Comfort working independently and owning work end to end on a fast-moving team.## Bonus points
* Experience with government cloud or other regulated cloud environments with strict compliance requirements.
* Broader security expertise, for example writing security policies, offensive testing or vulnerability research.## Location and work model
* San Francisco, CA, United States
* On-site, 5 days a week
* Full-time## Compensation, as the posting describes it
* ** Base salary:
** USD 155,000 to 180,000
* Equity Pay $155k to $180kUSD base a year