Lead Cloud Engineer, Mill
$185-225k
3+ days a week in office (San Bruno, CA)
Food waste recycling company
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Food waste recycling company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-225k
3+ days a week in office (San Bruno, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To keep food from stinking up your kitchen — and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years as a cloud (services) engineer / backend engineer
- Strong API design experience, and an understanding of building asynchronous systems and error handling
- Hands-on experience with AWS (AWS IoT is a plus)
- Familiarity with data pipelines and cloud-native data streaming and processing tools, such as Kinesis
- Strong background in Python
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably with serverless architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. API Gateway, Lambdas, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, and CDK)
- Passion for building reliable systems with deep knowledge of observability, tracing, and system performance
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable
- TypeScript and modern JavaScript development
- Data streaming and warehousing technologies like Kafka and Snowflake
- Mobile application development, including React Native, native modules, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), deep linking, and websockets
- Access control systems, such as designing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for internal and external applications
- Experience with version control, CI/CD, and build systems (e.g., GitHub Actions)
- Familiarity with compliance and security standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and CPRA
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to lead our Cloud work across our AWS infrastructure
- This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our end-to-end applications across web, mobile, cloud, and data that support our customer experiences
- In this role, you'll work with a cross functional group of engineers, guide architectural decisions, and help scale products that are critical to our success and growth
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers building web and mobile applications, cloud backends, and data pipelines
- Lead end-to-end technical delivery—from architecture and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
- Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver intuitive and performant user experiences
- Champion modern software development practices, including CI/CD, IaC, observability, and test automation
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our systems
- Promote a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement
Our take
Wasted food and its decomposition do more for CO2 emissions globally than the entire airline industry combined. Whilst food waste bins run by local councils in the US do redirect the majority of food waste to recycling plants, there are still holes to plug, which is exactly what Mill is doing.
For a yearly subscription, customers can buy and use a combined waste tracking and impact app alongside the company’s purpose-made food waste bin. Unlike other bins for food waste, Mill’s product shrinks and dehydrates waste so that there’s no smell or runoff. Mill will dispose of your waste themselves, and use it for sustainable chicken feed.
With a number of high profile environmentally-friendly investors behind them, the Mill ecosystem has a range of benefits for company subscribers as well as individuals. Restaurants and offices can subscribe to Mill and help to move towards sustainability goals, whilst partnerships with local farms provide a solid revenue structure.
Mill is only available in the US, but since its successful first-gen launch in 2023, it has been using funding from that year to enhance its product offering and reach a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70m
SERIES C
Jan 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $170m
Company HQ
San Bruno, CA
Leadership
Harry Tannenbaum
(Founder & President)Previously Director of Hardware at Google, Director of Business Analytics and eCommerce at Nest Labs and Analyst at Gleacher Partner.
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