Senior Cloud Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers 1600 educational institutions 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50) and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery hiring and upskilling from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025 we tripled our ARR at scale.

Why join Handshake now:

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy at global scale with impact your friends family & peers can see & feel

• Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs Fortune 500 partners & the worlds top educational institutions

• Join a team with leadership from Scale AI Meta xAI Notion Coinbase & Palantir among others

• Build a massive fast-growing business with billions in revenue

At Handshake we believe the infrastructure you build should be as thoughtful as the product it supports. Were looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer on the Agentic Infrastructure team whos excited to shape the foundation that our engineering teams build on someone who sees infrastructure not as plumbing but as a product in itself.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer youll be at the center of how we design deploy and evolve our cloud infrastructure. Youll work closely with engineering platform and security teams to define patterns that scale and make it genuinely easy for developers to do the right thing. Youll codify best practices champion automation and bring a modern opinionated perspective on how cloud-native infrastructure should work.

This isnt a keep the lights on role. Youll be architecting systems writing the playbooks others follow and pushing us toward a more intelligent automated infrastructure future.

• Architect and manage scalable reliable cloud infrastructure across our production and development environments

• Define and enforce best practices for cloud deployments making it easy for teams to ship safely and confidently

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (we use Buildkite) and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline how code gets from commit to production

• Own and evolve our Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform Crossplane or similar IaC tooling

• Drive platform improvements that reduce toil and increase developer velocity

• Explore and implement AI-driven approaches to infrastructure automation observability and incident response

• Partner with engineering teams to design systems that are cloud-native from the ground up

• Mentor engineers across the organization on cloud best practices and patterns

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP (strongly preferred) AWS or Azure youve run production workloads at scale and know where the bodies are buried

• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code particularly Terraform or experience with Crossplane or similar policy-driven IaC

• Fluency with modern CI/CD tooling Buildkite GitHub Actions or similar and a strong GitOps mindset with tools like ArgoCD or Flux

• Experience designing container-based and Kubernetes-native architectures

• A genuine curiosity about applying AI and automation to infrastructure problems whether thats smarter alerting self-healing systems or LLM-assisted runbooks

• Strong communication skills you can explain a complex architectural decision to an engineer and an executive alike

• A collaborative spirit and a bias toward documentation standards and shared ownership

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization

• Background in platform engineering or developer experience (DX)

• Exposure to Cloud Security practices and experience with IAM SIEM scanning etc.

• Experience with service mesh architectures (Istio Linkerd)

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.

The below benefits are for full-time US employees.

Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

Financial Wellness: 401(k) match competitive compensation financial coaching

Family Support: Paid parental leave fertility benefits parental coaching

Wellbeing: Medical dental & vision mental health support $500 wellness stipend

Growth: $2000 learning stipend ongoing development

Remote & Office: Internet commuting & free lunch/gym in our SF office

Time Off: Flexible PTO 15 holidays 2 flex days

Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

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