Staff Engineer – Cloud Platform

🔥 12 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $141k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Calix

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2000

📡 Telecommunications

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $50M Venture Round on 2009-08

Telecommunications • SaaS • Enterprise

Calix is a comprehensive solutions provider that focuses on enabling broadband service providers (BSPs) to simplify, innovate, and grow their businesses. Through its advanced broadband platform, Calix offers technologies like 10G-PON, 5G, Wi-Fi 7, and more to improve network operations, reduce downtime, and enhance the subscriber experience. The company provides managed services such as SmartLife and SmartHome, which help subscribers operate, secure, and enhance their connected lifestyles. Calix serves diverse provider types including telcos, cable operators, and municipal utilities, helping them deliver critical broadband connectivity and transform community access to digital services. With a focus on cloud technology, analytics, and transformation guidance, Calix empowers service providers to thrive in the digital age.

📋 Description

• Design, architect, and operate highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platform infrastructure • Drive platform modernization initiatives using cloud-native technologies and automation frameworks • Define and implement platform reliability, observability, disaster recovery, and capacity management strategies • Troubleshoot end-to-end service delivery issues across cloud infrastructure, network services, OLT/ONT environments, and customer-facing applications • Optimize service availability, latency, throughput, and operational efficiency with engineering teams • Design, deploy, and operate NATS messaging infrastructure for distributed microservices • Configure and optimize HAProxy for load balancing, high availability, traffic routing, SSL termination, and performance • Build scalable service communication frameworks using event-driven architectures • Implement service discovery, fault tolerance, and resiliency patterns • Design and manage GCP services including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Composer/Airflow • Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terragrunt • Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, compliance, and operational workflows • Build reusable platform services enabling rapid application deployment • Design and maintain enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines • Automate software delivery using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools • Improve developer productivity through platform engineering and self-service capabilities • Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs, and GCP Monitoring • Drive proactive incident prevention and operational excellence • Lead root cause analysis for critical platform and network incidents • Partner with Product, Engineering, SRE, Network Operations, TAC, and Customer Success teams • Mentor engineers on cloud technologies, networking, platform reliability, and telecom architectures • Develop technical roadmaps and drive strategic platform initiatives • Contribute to standards, best practices, design reviews, and architecture governance

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments • 5+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) • Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized platforms • Deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing and switching, NAT, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, VPN technologies, and load balancing • Hands-on experience with HAProxy configuration, tuning, troubleshooting, and high availability deployments • Hands-on experience with NATS messaging systems and event-driven architectures • Experience supporting telecom and broadband infrastructure including OLTs, ONTs, routers, and access network technologies • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform • Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting/programming languages • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps platforms • Experience with monitoring, telemetry, and observability frameworks • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident management skills • Preferred: experience in broadband access networks, PON technologies, and service provider environments • Preferred: experience with Kubernetes networking and service mesh technologies • Preferred: experience with Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and distributed databases • Preferred: knowledge of security best practices in cloud and telecom environments • Preferred: Google Cloud Professional Certification(s) • Preferred: experience working in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Telecom Cloud Operations teams

🏖️ Benefits

• May be eligible for a bonus • Benefits package (specific benefits linked in posting)