Palo Alto, CA

Salary
$125,000–$200,000
Posted
Jul 21, 2026
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 23, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A cloud infrastructure role at a healthcare AI startup, focused on GCP and Kubernetes (GKE) environments. Day-to-day work spans Terraform-based infrastructure automation, Bazel build systems within a monorepo, CI/CD pipeline design, and production reliability — including observability, incident response, and security hardening. Suits an experienced DevOps or SRE engineer comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

Senior level · 4+ years · Full-time

Must have (5)
GCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDBazel
Nice to have (3)
GKEHIPAASOC2

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What gives you an edge
Bazel2%Terraform11%GCP13%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
CI/CD45%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

No work location is specified in the posting — no city, state, or remote designation is mentioned. Location fields are left blank; the role is assumed US-based by default.

The title 'Cloud Engineer' carries no seniority modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 4–7+ years requirement and the scope (owning architecture, reliability, and security across a production platform) support a Senior classification.

Bazel is listed in the Required section with the qualifier 'or similar build systems,' meaning the specific tool is interchangeable but the build-system capability is a hard gate. No other named alternatives are given in the posting; common substitutes (e.g. Gradle, Buck) were not named and are not added to alternatives per the posting's intent.

HIPAA and SOC2 appear under 'Nice to Have' and are marked preferred accordingly.

GKE is called out as 'preferred' within the Required section ('GCP and Kubernetes (GKE preferred)'), so it is marked preferred while GCP and Kubernetes themselves remain required.

No compensation figures are provided in the posting.

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