Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer will help innovate Brightline’s new and growing product ecosystem that leverages groundbreaking spatial computing and AI capabilities. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and services to support the development and streamed deployment of immersive applications.  Leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to architect scalable and resilient cloud environments.

This person should have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology (or related filed) with at least 8+ years experience in cloud computing technologies and should have a passion for product development. This role will communicate daily with the CTO and EVP, Product. 

Technology Capabilities and Experience

This person will have the following experience:

• Proficiency in cloud platforms and services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a focus on compute, storage, networking, and security services.
• Experience architecting and deploying cloud solutions for real-time data processing, remote rendering and streaming, and interactive applications, preferably in the spatial computing or gaming industry.
• Strong understanding and skills for implementation of cloud-native architectures, including deploying microservices, containers, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Understanding and focus on cloud cost analysis and on-demand scaling
• Knowledge of spatial computing platforms and technologies, such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and their integration with cloud services.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and configuration management tools.
• Experience with cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, network security, and compliance frameworks.

Nice to have 

• Understanding of NVIDIA Omniverse (Kit Extensions, RTX, Microservices, Python, C++)
• Experience with render streaming and cloud GPU VMs
• Understanding of Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) (specifically Asset Resolver and cloud services)

Additional Values We Care About

• Multidisciplinary team player
• Ability to communicate clearly across teams
• Experience working with public sector customers
• Local to our Ashburn, VA Headquarters a plus
• Product development experience
• Experience developing for UX workflows
• Experience working in and developing VR/AR/XR applications
• Excitement about working with and advancing new technologies

This individual will contribute to programs associated or directly with the United States government. This role is required to be a US citizen and must be able to pass a background check and obtain a security clearance.