[Remote] Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to work on foundational infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability as the company grows.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, databases, and networking layers
- Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and security of Valon’s production systems as we scale to support major enterprise deployments
- Evaluate, adopt, and operationalize new infrastructure technologies (e.g., Vitess, Clickhouse, Redis) to meet evolving product and scale requirements
- Collaborate with product engineering, platform, and operations teams to define infrastructure solutions that unlock product innovation and operational efficiency
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, driving improvements to system observability, alerting, and reliability practices
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy for the platform, with an emphasis on pragmatic, well-reasoned trade-offs
- Mentor teammates through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
Skills
- 3–5 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud systems
- Hands-on experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure at meaningful scale
- Strong working knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
- Experience with distributed systems concepts: networking, storage, load balancing, and database operations
- Solid engineering fundamentals—you can write clean, well-tested code and contribute meaningfully to services and tooling, even if infrastructure is your primary domain
- A product mindset: you think about how infrastructure decisions impact the teams and products that depend on your work
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to working across teams
- Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments is a plus
- Familiarity with regulated industries (fintech, healthcare, etc.) is a bonus but not required
Benefits
- Competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401k plan.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses.
- Company-wide orientation, learning & development opportunities, and regular review cycles featuring 360-degree feedback.
- Quarterly budgets for team and company outings.
- Flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays.
- 12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents, fully paid.
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