Senior Cloud Engineer

About Albert Invent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster.

Seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Engineer who will lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable cloud architectures, drive automation across the platform, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance cloud solutions aligned with business goals.

• Define and evolve the company’s cloud architecture, with AWS as the primary platform.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native and event-driven architectures to support product growth and enterprise demands.
• Create and scale up our platform for integrations with our enterprise customers (webhooks, data pipelines, connectors, batch ingestions, etc).
• Partner with engineering and product to convert custom solutions into productised capabilities.

• Act as a foundational partner in building out the company’s security and compliance functions.
• Help define cloud security architecture, policies, and controls to meet enterprise and customer requirements.
• Guide compliance teams on technical approaches to SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and GxP standards.
• Mentor engineers and security specialists on embedding secure-by-design and compliance-first practices.

• Work with Solutions Engineering and customers to design and validate complex deployments.
• Contribute to processes that productise custom implementations into scalable platform features.

• Serve as a technical thought leader across cloud, data, and security domains.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership (Product, Platform, TPM, Security) to align technical strategy with business goals.
• Act as an advisor to security and compliance teams during their growth, helping establish scalable practices and frameworks.
• Represent the company in customer and partner discussions as a trusted cloud and security subject matter expert.

• Provide guidance to the data engineering team on database architecture, storage design, and integration patterns.
• Advise on selection and optimisation of a wide variety of databases (relational, No
  
  SQL, time-series, graph, analytical).
• Collaborate on data governance frameworks covering lifecycle management, retention, classification, and access controls.
• Partner with data and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment and strong data security practices.

• Build and maintain tools, automation, and CI/CD pipelines that accelerate developer velocity.
• Promote best practices for infrastructure as code, containerisation, observability, and cost optimisation.
• Embed security, compliance, and reliability standards into the development lifecycle.

• 12+ years of experience in cloud engineering or architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS and strong understanding of modern distributed application design (microservices, containers,
  event-driven architectures ).
• Hands-on experience with a wide range of databases (SQL, No
  
  SQL, analytical, and specialized systems).
• Strong foundation in data management and governance
  , including lifecycle and compliance.
• Experience supporting or helping build security and compliance functions within a SaaS or enterprise environment.
• Expertise with IaC (Terraform, CDK, Cloud Formation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong foundation in networking, security, observability, and performance engineering.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to partner across technical and business functions.

• Exposure to Azure
  , GCP
  , or other cloud environments.
• Experience working in SaaS/PaaS at enterprise scale.
• Background in product engineering, with experience shaping technical direction in collaboration with product teams.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and GxP
  ).

• Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
• The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.
• You will enjoy the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI tools that accelerate real-world R&D and solve global challenges from sustainability to advanced manufacturing while growing your careers in a high-energy environment.