Cloud Engineer
Arena Analytics
You're starting your career and you want to work on problems that actually matter. Arena is a Series A startup backed by top investors like CRV and Redpoint, building AI-powered communities for creators and brands. If you want to skip the legacy code and work on modern infrastructure from day one, this role offers exactly that.
As a Cloud Engineer, you'll build real-time messaging systems that support 100,000 concurrent users per customer application. You'll optimize high-performance APIs to respond in the 10ms range and design scalable architecture that powers 50M monthly conversations. This is infrastructure work that directly impacts how creators and brands engage with audiences worldwide.
This fits you if you have a strong foundation in systems thinking, understand databases and APIs, and want hands-on experience with cloud platforms. Computer science or engineering backgrounds help, but we're looking for problem-solvers who can learn quickly and take ownership of what they build.
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About this role
About Arena: Arena is a Series A company backed by top-tier investors such as CRV, Redpoint and Craft Ventures. Arena offers a unique work environment and the chance to collaborate with diverse teammates across multiple countries, with a culture of ownership (autonomy, growth, and responsibility). We are a startup created in Silicon Valley with a mission to build communities for creators, publishers and brands with the power of AI. Companies using Arena include Disney, Reuters, Fox, Red Bull and NFL. We have +2,000 customers in 150 countries and with +50M users having conversations on Arena per month and engaging with our Agent AI. Sometimes you're stuck in a job that doesn't make sense. Refactoring code from ages ago, the stack is miles away from what it's supposed to be. If you love a good challenge, enjoy solving meaningful problems, and want to be a part of one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the Silicon Valley — then Arena is the company you're looking for. The challenges: Real-time messaging infrastructure supporting 100,000 concurrent users per customer application; High performance systems with API responses in the 10ms range; Highly scalable architecture using auto-scaling policies, distributed systems and container orchestration; High availability infrastructure powering homepages of some of the most visited websites and apps on the internet; Managing distributed databases for our Data Platform storing every user engagement; Building infrastructure that enables product teams to ship fast with reliability and observability. Our Stack: AWS; DigitalOcean; Terraform; Docker; GitHub & GitHub Actions; Node; React; TypeScript; Vercel; Datadog; CloudWatch; Kong API Gateway; Cloudflare; Varnish. Work Experience: 3–5 years of relevant DevOps / Infrastructure / SRE experience. Must-Have Experience: AWS infrastructure experience with: ECS (Fargate); Lambda; RDS (PostgreSQL); DocumentDB (MongoDB compatible); S3; CloudFront; API Gateway; WAF; SES; IAM; VPC networking. Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (or similar); Containerization using Docker and container orchestration with ECS; Strong networking fundamentals: load balancers, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, CDNs; Monitoring and observability using Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus or similar; Database operations with MongoDB/DocumentDB and PostgreSQL; Fluent written and spoken English. Nice-to-Have Experience: Kong API Gateway or other gateway technologies (NGINX, Envoy); DigitalOcean infrastructure; Varnish cache configuration and CDN optimization; FinOps and cloud cost optimization; Cloudflare DNS/CDN management; Serverless frameworks for Lambda deployments; OpenVPN configuration and administration; Experience with high-scale systems (1M+ concurrent connections). Example Projects You’ll Be Working on: Build fully redundant production environment with automated switchover capabilities; Build fully automated CI/CD pipeline; Build fully automated production scaling system; Build fully automated monitoring and early-warning systems; Implement SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance; Monitor and maintain systems security and data privacy. We also have some sweet perks like: 🔥 Be a part of the team in Silicon Valley and join a global team 💪 A team of exceptional engineers leading the cutting-edge AI Agents. 💶 Competitive salary package & benefits ⛱️ 4 weeks of paid time-off 📖 Learning and Development budget 🚀 Key moment to join Arena in terms of growth and opportunities 💻 Ability to put your stamp on real-world AI applications that serve millions of users. 📚 Fast-learning environment, entrepreneurial and strong team spirit 🌍 Multiple nationalities: cosmopolite & multi-cultural mindset 💆♀️ Our people matter, work-life balance is important at Arena Originally posted on Himalayas
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