Staff Cloud Platform Engineer at HavocAI
$190,000–$215,000
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level individual contributor role focused on designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure for autonomous systems at a defense-oriented startup. The work centers on AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service tooling, with responsibility spanning reliability, security, and cost optimization. Best suited to a seasoned cloud or infrastructure engineer comfortable owning technical direction independently in an early-stage environment.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,050–2,650
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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 (8)
SOC classification is Medium-confidence: the role is titled 'Staff Cloud Platform Engineer' and emphasizes building infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes platforms, self-service tooling, and CI/CD pipelines — work that is primarily software development (15-1252). However, it also has a meaningful operational/systems-administration dimension (SLIs/SLOs, incident response, observability), which could support 15-1244; 15-1252 wins because the JD explicitly requires writing code in Go or Python and building platform tooling.
Infrastructure as Code is listed as a hard requirement but no specific tool is named; Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation are the dominant AWS-ecosystem substitutes and are captured under the Terraform skill entry.
Security clearance is framed conditionally ('if required') rather than as a hard gate, so the clearance requirement is set to None. However, the posting does state U.S. citizenship is required and that candidates must be able to obtain a clearance — worth noting for candidate screening.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) appears under Preferred Skills and is marked accordingly.
AWS GovCloud and FedRAMP/IL4/IL5 compliance experience appear under Preferred Skills and are marked accordingly.
Remote status is set per caller declaration; the company is headquartered in Providence, RI, but no location requirement is stated in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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