Full Stack Engineer - Cloud

Position Overview

Materialize is seeking a versatile, full stack engineer to join our Cloud team. This role offers broad exposure to all systems that power Materialize, from cloud networking and Kubernetes operators to backoffice billing infrastructure, frontend features, and CI/CD pipelines. You will be instrumental in building and running our fully managed cloud service, contributing to our self-managed offering, improving internal operational systems, and working within our Console UI.

About Materialize

Materialize is a real-time data platform built on a breakthrough in incremental computation, enabling up-to-date, trustworthy views into any aspect of your business using just SQL. Build and adapt live, composable data products in minutes—with the team you already have. Use Materialize to power data-intensive UIs, deliver fresh context to AI/ML pipelines, and create dynamic digital twins of manufacturing processes for real-time optimization. Materialize is trusted by General Mills, Ryder, and Fubo.tv to solve their most pressing real-time data challenges.

Our team spans the US (with a NYC headquarters), Canada, and EMEA.

Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate our managed cloud, ensuring security, availability, and performance for our SaaS product.
• Automate and streamline operations: write database orchestration logic, maintain robust CI pipelines, and bring order to the intersection points between cloud infra and business operations.
• Contribute to our Console UI that serves as the entry point for users discovering, querying, and operating Materialize.
• Contribute to our self-managed offering that enables customers to deploy Materialize in their cloud of choice.
• Debug and resolve complex distributed cloud issues—from tricky network glitches to Kubernetes operator quirks and third-party integrations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Eagerness to be a generalist: ready to learn quickly, ramp up in new areas, and tackle a variety of challenges, big or small.
• Strong experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Familiarity with frontend (TypeScript, React) development.
• Possession of a growth mindset, always looking to expand skills and capabilities.
• Clear communication skills and enjoyment of close collaboration across teams.

About You

• You can work from our NYC office (or are open to relocating).
• You are passionate about databases and distributed systems!

Bonus Points

• Experience with GCP and/or Azure.
• Experience operating production databases or managing other critical systems.
• Willingness to participate in our voluntary on-call rotation.

Employment Type

• Full-time

Location Type

• In-office (NYC) or Hybrid (~3x days/week in office)

Salary Range

• $160,000 - 225,000 + Equity

Note on Salary: The salary range provided is not a guarantee. Actual compensation will be determined by objective assessment of qualifications, experience, education, skills, certifications, geographic location, and market demands during the application and interview process. Materialize reserves the right to adjust the salary range based on specific candidate circumstances and the overall compensation package.

Company Culture

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share.