Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Valon is looking for a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help define and drive the technical direction of their Cloud Infrastructure team within Platform Engineering. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering and has a track record of operating at staff-level scope and influence.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or cloud systems
• Deep hands-on experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure at significant scale
• Strong expertise in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: networking, storage, databases, load balancing, observability, and performance at scale
• Solid engineering fundamentals—you write clean, well-tested code and can contribute meaningfully to services and tooling
• A product mindset and strong business intuition: you understand how infrastructure decisions create leverage (or bottlenecks) for the broader organization
• Excellent communication skills—you can explain complex technical trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 401k plan
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Grow together: company-wide orientation, learning & development opportunities, and regular review cycles featuring 360-degree feedback
• Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings
• Generous time off: flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays
• Baby bonding time: 12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents, fully paid