# Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform

SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE (Basic purpose of the job): The Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform will support the design and creation of cloud-based products and services to meet the technology needs of Exelixis. This position will help define and design our cloud platform, which includes cloud automation tools and standards, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling and AWS account provisioning automation. This position will also work with application support teams to re-define the interface between our cloud platform products and application installation and configuration processes. ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES: Product Strategy & Product Road Map: Develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity. Understands key business processes and business areas. Product Development & Delivery: Guides the successful completion of major initiatives or programs and lead mid to large size complex projects. Lead end-to-end development processes, from ideation through CI/CD, security scanning, and production monitoring. Identify and implement improvements to overall processes and development procedures. Develops and applies complex and often long-ter

- **Id**: 3837432
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/exelixis-senior-staff-engineer-cloud-platform-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Alameda, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T21:29:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T05:45:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6700
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Drug Discovery, Oncology Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 1917987
- **Name**: Exelixis
- **Domain**: exelixis.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/exelixis-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Salary

- **Min**: 190000
- **Max**: 239500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 239500

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: yes
- **IAM** — Optional: yes
- **Jenkins** — Optional: yes
- **PowerShell** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: associate
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:29:21Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 33 · green card filings: 10; Filings 12m: 33

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 239500
- **Is top pay**: no

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