Your impact

At Handshake, we are assembling a team of dynamic engineers who are passionate about building high-quality, impactful, self-service platforms. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will spearhead the management of our Search Infrastructure platform and Search Data Pipelines, guaranteeing their seamless operation in a scalable cloud environment.

Your expertise will be pivotal in optimizing our platforms for maximum efficiency and reliability, ensuring they meet the demands of our growing business while maintaining robust scalability. You'll play a crucial role in mentoring and developing junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture

Your role

• Design, implement, and maintain pipelines for ingesting search data in real time

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize search platform and search data pipeline performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Develop scalable cloud infrastructure solutions using industry best practices.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration of infrastructure components and broader application architecture.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the team.

• Participate in on-call rotations to support infrastructure-related incidents and ensure high availability of our cloud services and the Handshake Platform.

• Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and trends, evaluating their potential impact on existing infrastructure and recommending appropriate adoption strategies.

• Develop and improve processes to provide self-service and first-class user experience for our engineers.

• Be a thought leader, drive innovation by helping to develop team roadmaps aligning with our business goals.

Your experience

• You have experience building and maintaining large data pipelines

• You have experience working with both relational and non-relational databases at scale

• You are adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles

• You thrive taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome-oriented, measuring business impact

• You act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers, focusing on user experience and simplicity

• You build and maintain cloud-based architectures in AWS and/or GCP, at scale

• You have prior experience with building and maintaining self-service tooling and guardrails

• You are passionate about building simple, yet high-quality infrastructure

• You have experience working in distributed, performant, at-scale backend systems

Bonus areas of expertise

• Elasticsearch/ELK stack, Solr, Opensearch, or Lucene experience

• Distributed tracing and observability with tools like Datadog, OTEL

• GitOps & Argo ecosystem of tools

About us

Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforce—from Fortune 500 to federal agencies, school districts to startups, healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look at Handshake. With our hybrid-work model, employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week (unless noted in the specific job posting). Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

What we offer

At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

Benefits below apply to US employees in full-time positions.

• 💰 Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.

• 🍼 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.

• 💝 Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.

• 📚 Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.

• 💰 Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.

• 🛜 Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.

• 🚃 Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).

• 🥗 Free lunch provided 3x a week across all offices.

• 🤝 Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.

• 🏦 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.

• 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 13 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off.

• 💻 Handshake offers $500 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.

• 🍼 Family support: Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. We partner with Maven Clinic to provide a lifetime coverage up to $15K for expenses related to fertility and family forming!

• 💰 Lifestyle Savings Account: We offer you an annual stipend of $500 to use for purchases such as fitness classes, gym memberships, work-from-home setup, and more.

Looking for more? Explore our mission, values and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please let your recruiter know during initial communications.