Staff Cloud Engineer, Altana
$170-220k
+ Discretionary bonus & Equity for eligible roles
Occasional travel as needed
Supply chain visibility platform
Open for applications
Supply chain visibility platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$170-220k
+ Discretionary bonus & Equity for eligible roles
Occasional travel as needed
201-500 employees
Company mission
Altana AI's mission is to improve global commerce.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building developer platforms, infrastructure automation, or cloud infrastructure in a production environment
- Expertise in designing, implementing, and managing observability platforms for cloud-native environments (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
- Strong understanding and practical application of SRE principles, including SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, and blameless culture
- Production experience building and operating environments in AWS and/or Azure
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience including cluster management, application deployments, and operational maintenance
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Python, Go) for automation and tool development
- Proven experience participating in and improving incident management processes for critical systems
- Knowledge of modern software delivery paradigms, including microservices architectures and CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills in complex distributed systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working with technical teams to understand requirements and design solutions
- Track record of delivering platform capabilities that improved team productivity or system reliability
- Care deeply about developer experience, automation, security, and operational excellence
Desirable
- Experience at a startup or high-growth technology company
- Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Familiarity with securing information systems and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, IRAP, SOC 2)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Experience with data engineering concepts, including building or operating reliable data pipelines, data streaming technologies, or managing large-scale data infrastructure
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The Cloud Engineering team is looking for an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer to help build out our vision
- You'll work closely with our Developers, Data Scientists, and Customers on projects to analyze and observe world-scale datasets, build systems that can scale to produce never-before-seen insights, and construct infrastructure and applications that help deliver our product vision
- In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of Altana's critical production services across our cloud-native environments and data pipelines
- You will drive reliability into our architecture and operations through automation, proactive monitoring, and comprehensive observability
- Success will be measured by the resilience of our production systems, the effectiveness of our observability stack, and our continuous improvement in operational efficiency
- Observability & Monitoring: Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive observability solutions across the platform stack, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting using modern tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry). Develop dashboards and runbooks that provide deep insights into system health and behavior
- Internal Developer Platforms: Build and maintain internal developer platforms using infrastructure as code (Terraform) to enable self-service provisioning across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure)
- Automation & CI/CD: Design and implement automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, and operational tasks using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
- Kubernetes & Container Platforms: Develop and maintain Kubernetes platforms including writing Helm charts, managing cluster operations, implementing pod security policies, and optimizing resource utilization
- Reliability Engineering: Champion SRE principles including establishing and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for critical services. Drive initiatives to improve system reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency
- Platform Abstractions: Create platform abstractions and tooling that enable development teams to deploy and operate services independently while maintaining security and compliance standards
- Security & Compliance: Build and maintain secure container images and deployment pipelines with automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance checks. Support deployments in highly regulated customer environments
- Incident Management: Participate in incident response lifecycle including detection, triage, mitigation, and resolution. Lead blameless postmortems to identify root causes and implement preventative measures
- Toil Reduction: Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system reliability through scripting, tooling development, and process improvement
- Collaboration & Mentorship: Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities. Mentor team members on cloud best practices, platform patterns, and automation techniques
- On-Call Rotation: Participate in a periodic on-call rotation, responding to critical alerts and ensuring rapid resolution of production incidents
- Technologies We Love:
- Languages: Python, Go, JavaScript
- Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Azure
- Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Data: Databricks, OpenSearch, Postgres, Spark
Our take
Altana’s platform provides a shared source of truth for the global supply chain. The idea is that this will help businesses and governing powers optimize global commerce which, over the past few years, has shot up on the list of international priorities. With three quarters of businesses reporting recent supply chain disruptions, and governments increasingly concerned with mitigating security threats, data-driven visibility is more sought after than ever before.
Crucially, the platform doesn’t require data sharing to create global intelligence, instead using a federated machine learning approach. This is a nut many big-data companies have been trying to crack, and Altana’s success has attracted interest from top-tier investors like Google Ventures and Floating Point alongside contracts with the UK Department of Business & Trade. A number of other headline enterprises and government agencies are already on the company's customer roster.
With companies looking to recoup some of the $4T reportedly lost in supply chain disruptions over recent years, and the push for global databases getting stronger, logistics startups are having a fruitful investment period. Altana is crafting a remarkable product at a highly marketable time, and with good uptake so far. Backed by substantial funding, Altana is set for a strong few years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$200m
SERIES C
Oct 2022
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $323.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive base salary: We offer competitive base salaries to recognize the incredible work our employees do.
- Learning & development: We support your development through regular performance check-ins and offer financial support for Learning and Development initiatives.
- Health benefits: We offer full global benefits, including a 100% employer-paid plan and tax-advantaged HSA and FSA options in the US.
- Paid time off: We provide a generous PTO policy, including paid sick time, to support your well-being in and out of the office.
- Equity program: We instill ownership by offering competitive new hire equity grants, plus the opportunity to gain more equity along the way.
- Parental leave: We offer up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave to support you and your family.
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Raphael Tehranian
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously an analyst with J P Morgan, pivoting to engagement at Cleantech Group and then corporate tech strategy with Suncor Energy. After a spell as an investor at Fuller Smith, spent time with global supply chain analytics company Panjiva as a management advisor.
Peter Swartz
(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)An MIT grad in political science who went on to work as Head of Data Science at Panjiva.
Evan Smith
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Yale economics graduate with experience in renewables at Imperium Renewables and Verno Systems, the latter of which they co-founded. Served as a partner at Fuller Smith, before moving on to work in a management advisor role at Panjiva.
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