Staff Cloud Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 7, 2026. First seen by Alion on May 23, 2026.
Join Grindr, the leading LGBTQ+ dating app, as a Staff Cloud Engineer. In this high-ownership role, you'll shape the technical direction of Grindr's cloud infrastructure platform, partnering closely with engineering teams to define scalable infrastructure patterns and improve developer experience. You'll architect and evolve Grindr's cloud infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, design scalable infrastructure solutions, lead capacity planning and performance optimization, and drive infrastructure automation initiatives. You'll also mentor engineers on infrastructure design and cloud-native development practices. Enjoy a range of benefits, including 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums, 401k matching, flexible PTO, equity for all employees, and more.
Missions
- Architect, document, and evolve Grindr’s cloud infrastructure platform across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions that improve developer velocity, platform reliability, and operational efficiency across multiple AWS environments.
- Lead capacity planning and performance optimization for high-volume, globally distributed systems running on EKS.
Profil recherché
- Have experience supporting SOX compliance in a public company environment and understand infrastructure governance and control requirements- Are AI-native or rapidly becoming so - you actively use AI tools in your workflow and continuously explore new operational and engineering use cases
- Treat reliability, security, and scalability as foundational design principles
- Strong infrastructure automation mindset with experience reducing operational overhead through tooling and platform improvements
- Have successfully driven infrastructure standards adoption across multiple engineering teams
- Proven ability to establish infrastructure standards and drive adoption across engineering organizations
- Deep AWS expertise across services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, Route53, Kafka/MSK, and VPC networking
- Enjoy balancing hands-on technical execution with long-term platform strategy
- Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production at scale
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems with strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, and infrastructure performance characteristics
- Are comfortable influencing technical direction and collaborating across teams on complex infrastructure initiatives
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure in production environments
- You May Thrive in this Role if You:
- 5+ years working with infrastructure tooling including Terraform, Helm, Docker, CI/CD systems, and GitOps-style workflows
- Actively integrates AI tools into engineering workflows for automation, observability, operational analysis, or developer productivity
- Think in platforms and systems, not tickets - you build reusable solutions that scale across teams