United States onlyValon 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
