What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Engineer position at Haystack?
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The Role
The Role
- Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native observability platforms across AWS and Azure environments
- Develop and operate highly scalable systems on AWS (EKS, core services) with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and automation
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of observability tooling, including hosting, maintenance, scaling, and optimization
- Drive adoption of OpenTelemetry (OTel) standards for metrics, traces, logs, and profiling
- Build and enhance platform capabilities using Python and/or Go
- Architect and optimize CI/CD pipelines enabling rapid, secure, and reliable deployments
- 10 years of software engineering or cloud engineering experience
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud stack, especially EKS (Kubernetes on AWS) and core services (IAM, EC2, networking, storage, etc.)
- Strong experience working with Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems
- Hands-on experience with observability tools/platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.), including hosting and operational ownership
- Proficiency in Python and/or Go for platform and tooling development
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and tools
- Work on mission-critical, high-scale platforms
- Be part of a forward-looking, cloud-first organization
- Contribute to open technologies and modern observability practices