Senior Cloud Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 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.

🏢 About Handshake

Why join Handshake now:
We're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer on the Agentic Infrastructure team who's excited to shape the foundation that our engineering teams build on — someone who sees infrastructure not as plumbing, but as a product in itself.

🎯 The Role

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

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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

📌 Required Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP (strongly preferred), AWS, or Azure — you've 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 that's 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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)

🎁 Benefits

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: $2,000 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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