Lead Cloud Engineer

Mill is all about answering a simple question: how can we prevent waste? Less waste can save time, money, energy, maybe even our planet. And there’s no better place to start than food. Food waste is one of the most solvable climate problems facing us today. Plus, our trash really stinks. It’s gross, heavy, and our least favorite chore. At Mill we are striving to build a better environment for all, as we take on climate and kitchen change.

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to lead our Cloud work across our AWS infrastructure. This is a senior individual contributor role on our Product Applications team, which is responsible for building and maintaining our end-to-end applications across web, mobile, cloud, and data that support our user experiences.

In this role, you'll work with a cross functional group of engineers, guide architectural decisions, and help scale products that are critical to our success and growth.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers building web and mobile applications, cloud backends, and data pipelines.
• Lead end-to-end technical delivery—from architecture and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
• Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver intuitive and performant user experiences.
• Champion modern software development practices, including CI/CD, IaC, observability, and test automation.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our systems.
• Promote a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications:

• 6 years as a cloud (services) engineer / backend engineer
• Strong API design experience, and an understanding of building asynchronous systems and error handling.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (AWS IoT is a plus) 
• Familiarity with data pipelines and cloud-native data streaming and processing tools, such as Kinesis
• Strong background in Python
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably with serverless architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. API Gateway, Lambdas, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, and CDK).
• Familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and build systems.
• Passion for building reliable systems with deep knowledge of observability, tracing, and system performance.
• Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Typescript
• Familiarity with Kafka and Snowflake
• Mobile app experience, including familiarity with Native modules, BLE, deep links, websockets, react-navigation, tailwind, and Fastlane. 
• Experience designing RBAC systems for both internal and external applications
• Experience with compliance requirements such as ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR, and CPRA

The estimated base salary range for this position is $205k to $257k, which does not include the any benefits or equity. Various factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to experience, training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs.