Pictorus is looking for a talented infrastructure engineer with experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS architectures, both traditional workflows as well as serverless implementations. This is a mid-level role, not requiring heavy seniority, but also not appropriate for recent graduates or those requiring significant mentorship. This individual will be looked upon to lead our infrastructure from Closed-Beta level expectations to General Release expectations in terms of reliability, performance, visibility, scalability, and cost.

Ideally, a candidate for this position can articulate strong technical designs that are cost and performance scalable with most AWS technologies - Lambda, Timestream, Dynamo, EC2, IotCore, SNS/SQS, S3, Amplify, to name a few.

An ideal candidate would be in the ~5 years of experience range.

Job Requirements

• Ability to work in the US (no sponsorship)
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS architectures.
• Competent network debugger
• Competent Linux debugger

• SF Bay area resident (we’re hybrid remote/onsite from Oakland, CA)
• Experience leading a serverless migration, or standing up serverless architectures from scratch.
• Docker blackbelt
• AWS blackbelt
• Familiarity with device-level coding on single-board Linux computers.

About The Team

Pictorus is a software startup based in Oakland, California. People say "hardware is hard," but it's often the software interface that makes working with devices so challenging. This is the problem, faced by hardware developers all over the world, that we are out to solve. We’ve been building robotic/vehicle software for over 20 years combined - for NASA, the DoD, and drone startups Saildrone, DroneDeploy, and Matternet.

We want to make this technology approachable to everyone passionate about electronics, whether professionally, for personal projects, or university research. It shouldn’t require a PhD or decades of software engineering experience to program powerful device software. 

We love building real things, and we love coding them. Our office is in uptown Oakland, easily BARTable, and we enjoy a hybrid work/life balance that encourages both take-home days and onsite collaboration days. We love to grab a beer after work, BBQ on Fridays, and get into nature on the weekends. We offer unlimited PTO, and expect you to enjoy your nights, weekends, and encourage healthy vacations throughout the year.

No jerks need apply - our work culture encourages humility and collaboration over heroes and egos.