Senior Cloud Engineer

Salary: $180K - $220K Employment Type: FullTime Location Type:

Position Overview

At Handshake, we are assembling a team of dynamic engineers who are passionate about building high-quality, impactful, self-service platforms. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will spearhead the management of our Search Infrastructure platform and Search Data Pipelines, guaranteeing their seamless operation in a scalable cloud environment. Your expertise will be pivotal in optimizing our platforms for maximum efficiency and reliability, ensuring they meet the demands of our growing business while maintaining robust scalability. You'll play a crucial role in mentoring and developing junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain pipelines for ingesting search data in real time.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize search platform and search data pipeline performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop scalable cloud infrastructure solutions using industry best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration of infrastructure components and broader application architecture.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the team.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support infrastructure-related incidents and ensure high availability of our cloud services and the Handshake Platform.
• Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and trends, evaluating their potential impact on existing infrastructure and recommending appropriate adoption strategies.
• Develop and improve processes to provide self-service and first-class user experience for our engineers.
• Be a thought leader, drive innovation by helping to develop team roadmaps aligning with our business goals.

Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining large data pipelines.
• Experience working with both relational and non-relational databases at scale.
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.
• Thrive taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome-oriented, measuring business impact.
• Act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers, focusing on user experience and simplicity.
• Build and maintain cloud-based architectures in AWS and/or GCP, at scale.
• Prior experience with building and maintaining self-service tooling and guardrails.
• Passionate about building simple, yet high-quality infrastructure.
• Experience working in distributed, performant, at-scale backend systems.

Bonus Areas of Expertise

• Elasticsearch/ELK stack, Solr, Opensearch, or Lucene experience.
• Distributed tracing and observability with tools like Datadog, OTEL.
• GitOps & Argo ecosystem of tools.

About Handshake

Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforce—from Fortune 500 to federal agencies, school districts to startups, healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

With our hybrid-work model, employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week (unless noted in the specific job posting). Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

What Handshake Offers

At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure. Benefits below apply to US employees in full-time positions:

• 💰 Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 🍼 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.
• 💝 Comprehen