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Staff Cloud Engineer

Grindr· Engineering
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Hybrid (Chicago)$134.4k - $179.3kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Staff Cloud Engineer at Grindr focused on shaping and operating Grindr’s cloud infrastructure platform across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Hybrid role based in Chicago with in-office collaboration Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, document, and evolve Grindr’s cloud infrastructure platform across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform — establishing the standards and patterns engineering teams build on
  • Design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions that improve developer velocity, platform reliability, and operational efficiency across multiple AWS environments
  • Lead capacity planning and performance optimization for high-volume, globally distributed systems running on EKS
  • Drive infrastructure automation initiatives across provisioning, deployments, observability, security, and platform operations
  • Partner closely with product engineering teams to design infrastructure patterns for new microservices and platform capabilities
  • Contribute to cloud architecture decisions, infrastructure best practices, and operational readiness initiatives across the engineering organization
  • Mentor engineers on infrastructure design, Kubernetes adoption, and cloud-native development practices
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging AI-driven infrastructure tooling and operational workflows into the platform engineering ecosystem

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure in production environments
  • Deep AWS expertise across services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, Route53, Kafka/MSK, and VPC networking
  • Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production at scale
  • 5+ years working with infrastructure tooling including Terraform, Helm, Docker, CI/CD systems, and GitOps-style workflows
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems with strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, and infrastructure performance characteristics
  • Proven ability to establish infrastructure standards and drive adoption across engineering organizations
  • Strong infrastructure automation mindset with experience reducing operational overhead through tooling and platform improvements
  • Actively integrates AI tools into engineering workflows for automation, observability, operational analysis, or developer productivity

Skills

Required:Cloud infrastructure architectureAWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, Route53, Kafka/MSK, VPC)Kubernetes administrationTerraform, Helm, Docker, CI/CD, GitOps

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision: Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
  • Family Formation: Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
  • Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
  • Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
  • Gender-Affirming Care: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
  • Time Off & Rest: Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
  • Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Grindr

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