Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Cloud)

About the Role

As a member of our Cloud team you will have broad exposure to all of the systems that make Materialize operate. You will build and run our fully managed cloud service, contribute directly to our self-managed offering, make improvements to our internal operational systems, and spend time in our Console UI.

We are looking for a versatile, full stack engineer who is excited by making an impact no matter where in the stack a problem lies—from cloud networking and Kubernetes operators, to backoffice billing infra, to frontend features, to CI/CD pipelines.

To dive into some recent work by our Cloud team and learn about our architecture, check out The Making of Self-Managed Materialize.

This role will be based out of our NYC office (near Astor Place) either as full-time in office or hybrid (~3x days/week in office).

Responsibilities

• Own and operate our managed cloud, ensuring security, availability, and performance for our SaaS product.


• Automate and streamline operations: write database orchestration logic, maintain robust CI pipelines, and bring order to the intersection points between cloud infra and business operations.


• Contribute to our Console UI that serves as the entry point for users discovering, querying, and operating Materialize.


• Contribute to our self-managed offering that enables customers to deploy Materialize in their cloud of choice.


• Debug and resolve complex distributed cloud issues—from tricky network glitches to Kubernetes operator quirks and third-party integrations.

About You

• You have 5+ years of software engineering experience.


• You are eager to be a generalist: ready to learn quickly, ramp up in new areas, and tackle a variety of challenges, big or small.


• You can work from our NYC office (or are open to relocating).


• You have strong experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), and are familiar with frontend (TypeScript, React) development.


• You possess a growth mindset, always looking to expand your skills and capabilities.


• You're a clear communicator and enjoy collaborating closely across teams.
  

Bonus Points

• Experience with GCP and/or Azure.


• Experience operating production databases or managing other critical systems.


• Willingness to participate in our voluntary on-call rotation.


• Passionate about databases and distributed systems!

SALARY RANGE: $160,000 - 225,000 + Equity