Bloom Energy
Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer
San Jose, California · Staff+ · Full-time
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$31,275 more — $187,075 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- At Bloom Energy, our vision for a world powered by clean, reliable, and affordable energy is more than just a dream-we're making it reality.
- For over two decades, we've been at the forefront of the global energy transition, pioneering solutions that empower critical industries to thrive in a rapidly digitizing, energy-intensive world.
- Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure team in one of today's most important technology areas.
Responsibilities
- Lead adoption and operationalization of Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and related automation frameworks.
- Develop cloud platform standards, reusable infrastructure modules, engineering patterns, and best practices to improve consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Build and mature observability capabilities using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and automated alerting to improve operational visibility and incident response.
- Drive adoption of SRE practices including service level objectives, error budgets, incident management, operational reviews, capacity planning, and reliability improvement.
- Lead production readiness reviews, root cause analysis, performance optimization, resiliency planning, and operational risk assessments for critical systems.
- Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps, automation, and GitOps practices.
- Implement automated remediation, rollback, guardrails, and self-healing infrastructure patterns to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
- Establish and enforce operational standards for monitoring, patching, change management, disaster recovery, and production support.
- Partner closely with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Application, and Engineering teams to align cloud platforms with enterprise security, hardening, governance, and regulatory requirements.
- Evaluate emerging cloud, automation, AI/ML infrastructure, and platform engineering capabilities to support Bloom Energy's modernization and scalability goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Master's degree preferred.
- At least 10 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps, including 3 or more years in a senior, staff, principal, or technical leadership role.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting high-availability SaaS, AI/ML, manufacturing, energy, industrial technology, or large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, tagging governance, chargeback/showback, and multi-cloud cost management.
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, GPU workloads, data platforms, or large-scale analytics environments.
- Experience with cloud governance, compliance automation, security guardrails, and policy-as-code.
- Cloud or platform certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Professional, Kubernetes certifications, Terraform certification, or related credentials.
- Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
- Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
- $155,800.00 - $224,200.00
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
- Deep hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services, cloud architecture, cloud networking, security, resiliency, and production operations.
- Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, or multi-cloud environments is strongly preferred.
- Proven experience designing and operating mission-critical production environments supporting enterprise applications and services.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, including Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform engineering patterns.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch, or similar technologies.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Strong understanding of IAM, cloud security, compliance controls, encryption, resiliency engineering, and operational governance.
- Experience implementing SRE practices, incident management, runbooks, operational reviews, and reliability improvement programs.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Compensation
- The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience.
- Salary Ranges:
- $155,800.00 - $224,200.00
Company info
- Staff Cloud Engineer We are looking for a Sr.
- We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities.
- At Bloom Energy, we are committed to supporting the well-being of our employees and their families.
This listing is sourced directly from Bloom Energy's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.