Staff Cloud Engineer

About The Team

Grindr is an AI-native platform powering how millions of gay people connect globally. With 15M+ monthly users, 130B+ annual messages, and a team of fewer than 200, we move fast, stay lean, and solve technical problems at a scale few companies ever experience. The Cloud Engineering team builds and operates the infrastructure platform that powers Grindr globally. We own AWS architecture, Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure automation, developer enablement, and the cloud standards that product engineering teams build on every day.

About The Job

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you’ll help shape the technical direction of Grindr’s cloud infrastructure platform. You’ll partner closely with engineering teams across the company to define scalable infrastructure patterns, improve developer experience, and evolve the systems that support millions of users globally. This is a high-ownership role at a pivotal moment. As Grindr accelerates its AI-native roadmap, infrastructure becomes a strategic advantage — enabling rapid experimentation, global scale, and high-availability systems that serve millions of users every day.

Role Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure in production environments

• Deep AWS expertise across services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, Route53, Kafka/MSK, and VPC networking

• Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production at scale

• 5+ years working with infrastructure tooling including Terraform, Helm, Docker, CI/CD systems, and GitOps-style workflows

• Proven ability to establish infrastructure standards and drive adoption across engineering organizations

• Strong infrastructure automation mindset with experience reducing operational overhead through tooling and platform improvements

• Actively integrates AI tools into engineering workflows for automation, observability, operational analysis, or developer productivity

You May Thrive In This Role If You Are

• AI-native or rapidly becoming so — you actively use AI tools in your workflow and continuously explore new operational and engineering use cases

• Think in platforms and systems, not tickets — you build reusable solutions that scale across teams

• Treat reliability, security, and scalability as foundational design principles

• Successfully drive infrastructure standards adoption across multiple engineering teams

• Comfortable influencing technical direction and collaborating across teams on complex infrastructure initiatives

• Enjoy balancing hands-on technical execution with long-term platform strategy

Benefits And Perks

• Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.

• Family Formation Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.

• Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.

• Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.

• Gender-Affirming Care : Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.

• Time Off & Rest Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.

• Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch

About Grindr

Grindr is building the Global Gayborhood in your Pocket. With more than 15 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the gay community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. As a public company, we're moving into the next chapter: becoming an AI-native organization that's redefining what's possible for our community. We're embedding AI into our product and operations, moving with startup speed while operating at scale. Everything we do is rooted in impact for our users and outcomes for the business. This isn't social work, it’s impact through excellence.

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