Staff Cloud Engineer (Architect)

BrightAI is a high-growth Physical-AI company transforming how businesses interact with the physical world through intelligent automation. We are building a cutting-edge AI platform that processes visual, spatial, and temporal data across billions of real-world events—from edge devices and mobile sensors to large-scale cloud systems.

We’re seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer (Architect) eager to take on the challenges of building the next generation of cloud-native applications and services in a fast-paced environment. You’ll work hands-on with cutting-edge technologies like drones, robots, industrial machinery, low-power devices packed full of sensors all communicating with cloud services. You’ll help architect and scale systems capable of processing hundreds of millions of events per day. In this role, you’ll have a direct impact on the design, scalability, and performance of our cloud platform, collaborating closely with world-class engineers as we continue to grow and innovate.

Responsibilities

Work with developers, product managers and designers to guide and make technical decisions throughout the development process

Design and develop high quality, secure, performant cloud APIs that service mobile, web, and edge computing devices

Prototype unproven concepts to inform and optimize the final implementations

Automate everything possible. Leverages CI/CD to automate repeatable tasks and quality checks

Build tools and support for teams to self-manage in an owner-operator model

Work with cloud, mobile and edge teams to diagnose and resolve issues

Skills and Expertise

Passionate for continuous learning and understanding things in and around cloud development

Highly experienced building robust, well-documented, secure, well testing APIs and cloud services

Experience with Docker container development and hosting

5+ years of experience with cloud technologies and languages (Python, Golang)

AWS cloud experience using EKS/ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, and Snowflake

Experience building event driven architectures at high scale

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

Experience with high availability deployment across many regions and availability zones

Experience with SumoLogic, DataDog, CloudWatch or similar tools for observability

Deep experience with Git, pull request and code reviews as well as Jira for software development lifecycle.

Able to operate in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative and iterative development environment

Able to lead and define cloud initiatives and distill technical requirements from high-level product use cases to production-ready implementations

Experience establishing, promoting and ensuring best practices in cloud codebases including common architectures and standardized unit testing

Experience building reusable libraries, SDK’s and shared components

Intricate knowledge of building and managing web services using REST and OpenAPI

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Bonus

Experience using AI tools to improve productivity, code quality, test quality, and documentation

Experience working with embedded hardware devices

Experience working with AI, ML or AR

Experience with growing large teams and can describe the issues that arise with growth

Previous startup experience

Experience architecting IoT solutions

Experience with Serverless architectures