Staff Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & Security

4 hours, 27 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
HighLevel

HighLevel

HighLevel provides an all-in-one sales and marketing platform that agencies can white label and resell, offering tools and resources designed to help businesses consolidate their marketing efforts and achieve their growth objectives.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2018
$60M raised

Description

  • Design and evolve secure, scalable, resilient GCP infrastructure architecture for production and multi-tenant SaaS workloads.
  • Define standards for project and environment structure, multi-region deployments, high availability, and failover strategies.
  • Lead architectural reviews for high-impact infrastructure changes.
  • Architect and optimize Kubernetes platforms on GKE for production workloads.
  • Define and enforce cluster architecture, node pool strategies, workload isolation, scheduling, and upgrade lifecycle management.
  • Design and manage cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and traffic routing.
  • Own Cloudflare integration, including CDN configuration, WAF rules, DDoS protection, edge security, and traffic management.
  • Design and enforce least-privilege IAM architecture across GCP and platform systems.
  • Build and enforce secure-by-default infrastructure patterns and partner with Cyber Security on vulnerability remediation, controls, guardrails, threat modeling, and risk assessments.
  • Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation, including reusable Terraform modules and repeatable, auditable infrastructure changes.
  • Design and improve disaster recovery, failover, and operational readiness strategies, including RTO/RPO definitions and validation.
  • Partner with FinOps and Cloud teams to improve resource utilization, cost visibility, predictability, and performance optimization.
  • Act as a technical leader and mentor for SDE2, SDE3, and Lead engineers across cloud infrastructure and security domains.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, SRE/InfraOps, and Cyber Security teams, and communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders and leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or a related field.
  • 9+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or security.
  • Deep hands-on experience with GCP, or another cloud platform, and Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Strong experience with cloud networking and distributed systems.
  • Strong experience with Cloudflare, including CDN, WAF, and edge security.
  • Strong experience with IAM and access control systems.
  • Proven experience designing secure, highly available systems at scale.
  • Strong problem-solving and system design skills.
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
  • Experience in high-growth SaaS environments is preferred.
  • Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio is preferred.
  • Experience with policy-as-code tools such as OPA or Kyverno is preferred.
  • Experience in compliance-driven environments is preferred.
  • Scripting or programming experience in Go, Python, or Bash is preferred.

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