Build your future in the cloud with us

We’re looking for a Principal Cloud Engineer who gets excited on solving cloud challenges, optimizing performance, and helping businesses get the most out of their cloud.
What you’ll do:

• Take the lead on customer projects and mentor engineers
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and technical issues
• Define our approach to cloud reliability and efficiency
• Build tools that make cloud optimization easier for the team
• Write Terraform modules, Helm charts & SOPs

We are looking for a principal engineer to lead customer projects and level-up our engineering practices. The TL;DR of CloudPhilos:

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• We value you and your time: which is why we write in TL;DRs instead of boilerplate job descriptions.
• Founded by 2 ex-AWS employees.
• We make money through cloud cost & performance optimization, security assessments & response, and managing cloud platforms that can never go down.
• We don't care about a degree, just your ability to get the job done.
• We celebrate failures as much as we celebrate wins, as long as we learn something from them.

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The TL;DR of you:

• You're relentlessly curious.
• You can't let go of problems until you solve them.
• You're self sufficient.
• You try multiple things before asking for help.
• You question everything and reason from first principles.
• You have strong computer science fundamentals. You at least know the basics of the following: databases, operating systems (linux), datastructures and algorithms, networks.
• You can hack things together in a programming language of choice.

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The TL;DR of your experience:

• Besides passwords and API keys, Kubernetes has no secrets for you.
• You have experience setting up very reliable systems (99.99%+ uptime).
• You have a software engineering background or at least know how to code well.
• You have done performance optimizations before. Both at application as well as infrastructure level.
• (bonus) You have experience in application security.

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What you will be doing:

• Be a mentor for more junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot complex performance issues.
• Take the lead in defining our reliability practice.
• Build tools that make analysing cloud environments easy for more junior engineers.
• Write terraform modules, helm charts, and SOPs that can be used across customers.

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What you get for being AWSome:

• Meal vouchers.
• Laptop, phone, etc.
• A base salary ranging between 6.000 and 8.000 EUR per month.
• A dope company car that you can pick yourself (budget 1.000 EUR per month).