Sr Cloud Engineer

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. Aperture Cloud is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve: Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try Aperture Cloud out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.Aperture Cloud.cloud/register . We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us. 🎯 As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Networking Engineer your main goal will be to strengthen the cloud infrastructure and networking foundations that power Aperture Cloud Cloud as we scale across Azure regions, reduce single-person ownership risk, and prepare for future multi-cloud expansion. To do so, you’ll work hands-on across platform engineering, networking, reliability, and architecture to help Aperture Cloud Cloud scale securely, reliably, and sustainably: BUILD & OPERATE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern deployment tooling. Support regional rollouts and platform improvements as Aperture Cloud Cloud scales from hundreds of thousands toward millions of users. Improve existing infrastructure pain points through pragmatic, hands-on engineering rather than simply maintaining the status quo. STRENGTHEN NETWORKING FOUNDATIONS Apply deep production networking expertise to multi-region topology, ingress and egress, peering, routing, DNS, TLS, and connectivity patterns. Improve Kubernetes networking patterns across CNI, ingress controllers and related cloud-native infrastructure layers. Help shape secure, scalable network architecture as we expand across Azure regions and evaluate additional cloud providers. IMPROVE RELIABILITY, SECURITY & OBSERVABILITY Contribute to on-call, incident response, performance tuning, and critical bug fixes across network and platform systems. Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability so the team can diagnose issues faster and reduce operational toil. Strengthen our security posture through automation, segmentation, DDoS/WAF considerations, and zero-trust principles where relevant. DRIVE CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PLATFORM STRATEGY Partner closely with Cloud engineers, Product teams, Security, Support, Customer Success, Sales, and cloud provider teams on infrastructure initiatives. Lead significant infrastructure projects independently, such as new region rollouts, platform components, or cross-team technical initiatives. Bring senior technical judgement to architecture decisions, trade-offs, and the evolution of our multi-region and multi-cloud platform strategy. REQUIREMENTS Must-haves ☁️ Cloud infrastructure experience: You have hands-on experience managing and deploying infrastructure on Azure, or alternatively GCP or AWS. 🏗️ Infrastructure design: You have designed and scaled cloud-native infrastructure for complex platforms used by many users. 🌐 Production networking expertise: You have strong experience with VNets/VPCs, peering, routing, network topologies, DNS, load balancing, TLS, ingress/egress, and service mesh at meaningful scale. ☸️ Kubernetes: You have strong production experience with Kubernetes, including Kubernetes networking concepts such as CNI, ingress controllers, and service mesh. 🧱 Infrastructure as Code: You’re confident using Terraform and IaC practices to build scalable, repeatable, and reliable cloud infrastructure. 🔐 Security-first mindset: You know how to build secure, resilient systems using cloud, distributed systems, and infrastructure best practices. 🚀 CI/CD and build systems: You have a strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines, build processes, and deployment workflows. 📈 Observability and performance: You have experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, and performance tuning in production environments. 🌱 Growth mindset: You’re curious, resourceful, and comfortable saying “I don’t know yet, but I’ll find out.” Nice-to-haves 🟦 Azure experience: You have hands-on experience building or operating infrastructure on Azure. 🌍 Multi-cloud networking: You have experience with AWS or GCP networking in addition to Azure. 🏁 Startup experience: You’ve worked in a scrappy startup, high-trust small team, or entrepreneurial environment. Why join us? At Aperture Cloud, you’ll work on infrastructure and networking challenges that directly shape the next stage of our growth. Aperture Cloud Cloud is scaling from 500k toward 10M users, expanding into new Azure regions, and evaluating additional cloud providers — and you’ll help build the network and platform foundations that make that possible. You’ll join a small, high-trust Cloud Platform team with strong IC autonomy, shared ownership, and real influence over architectural decisions. This is not maintenance work on a finished platform: you’ll help solve genuine scale, reliability, security, and multi-region infrastructure problems alongside another senior engineer, while growing toward IC5 or a future tech-lead track. Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on? Apply now — and help us build the future of AI workflow orchestration. Aperture Cloud is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work. Our company language is English. You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at Aperture Cloud ( https://www.notion.so/Aperture Cloud/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-Aperture Cloud-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35 ). Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future. Benefits Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay. Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of Aperture Cloud with equity. Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are. US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are. Health & wellness 🩺 – Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* US : Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage. Future planning 💰 – Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.* US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match. Financial security 🛡️ – Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones. Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it! Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description. Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang. * Country-specific details are provided in your contract.