Senior Cloud Engineer at OfferUp - $215K–$240K + Equity in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Compensation is at the Top of Market. The $215K–$240K base range for a Senior Cloud Engineer is well above the US median for this level (~$160K–$195K per Levels.fyi/Glassdoor benchmarks), placing this firmly in the top quartile. Add equity and a 401(k) match, and total compensation is highly competitive — particularly for a non-FAANG company.
Skills You'll Build: This role is a strong accelerator for engineers who want to operate at platform scale. Key skills developed include:
- Multi-cloud architecture (AWS + GCP) and Terraform at enterprise scale
- Kubernetes/GitOps leadership (EKS, GKE, ArgoCD, Helm)
- AI/ML infrastructure enablement — a rapidly growing and high-demand specialty
- Zero-trust networking (Cloudflare/ZTNA, Okta) and security operations
- Technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional influence
Career Trajectory: This role positions you for Staff/Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager paths in cloud/platform infrastructure. AI/ML infra experience is particularly valued as companies invest heavily in LLM tooling.
Green Flags: Strong investor backing (a16z, T. Rowe Price), scale (1 in 6 US adults), clear ownership model, and emerging tech exposure (Amazon Bedrock, AI workflows).
Watch Points: On-call is explicit, and the role spans a very broad surface area (security, migrations, CI/CD, AI tooling). Confirm team size and on-call cadence during interviews to assess sustainable work-life balance. The flexible PTO policy (3–5 weeks expected) is generous but not unlimited.
Headquarters: Bellevue, WA or Remote Florida
Team Charter:
The Cloud Engineering team is dedicated to maintaining and evolving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Application Security, Change Management, and Backend application golden templates. We are the backbone of the technical organization, ensuring the foundation of our services is robust, secure, and efficient.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team. This team is tasked with ensuring scalability, reliability, and security for all backend services and keeping the SDLC running smoothly for engineers across the company.
As a senior member of the team, you will own meaningful pieces of our cloud platform end-to-end — from design through deployment and operation — while helping shape the standards, tooling, and golden templates that the rest of the engineering organization builds on. You will balance deep, hands-on technical ownership with mentoring teammates and influencing the technical direction of the systems that power a large-scale mobile marketplace.
What We Love About This Role:
- Scale & Impact: You will work on systems that drive the end-user experience and support every technical team across the organization, operating across a multi-account AWS and GCP footprint.
- Ownership: You will own critical infrastructure and platform capabilities end-to-end, making architectural decisions that affect reliability, security, and cost at scale.
- Force Multiplier: The templates, pipelines, and tooling you build raise the productivity and safety of every engineer at OfferUp.
- Emerging Technology: You will help bring new capabilities — including AI/ML developer tooling and infrastructure — into the hands of our engineers.
In This Role, You Will:
Design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, platform tooling, and CI/CD systems that underpin OfferUp's core applications. Day to day, that means you will:
- Build cloud infrastructure as code — design, implement, and maintain AWS and GCP infrastructure with Terraform, optimizing for reliability, security, and cost.
- Own our Kubernetes & GitOps platform — run and evolve EKS/GKE (cluster upgrades, Envoy/Gloo networking, Helm, ArgoCD delivery).
- Keep the SDLC fast and safe — build CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows (GitHub Actions, monorepo tooling, JFrog Artifactory), and maintain the backend "golden templates" and shared libraries the wider org builds on.
- Lead platform migrations end-to-end — plan, execute, and de-risk observability, data-store, Kubernetes, and multi-account migrations, including rollback strategy.
- Drive operational excellence & security — own observability in Datadog and on-call, remediate CVEs, manage secrets and access controls (Cloudflare/ZTNA, Okta, SSO, Workload Identity Federation), and optimize cloud cost.
- Multiply the team — enable AI/ML developer tooling (Amazon Bedrock, Claude, AI-assisted workflows), lead design and code reviews, set technical standards, mentor engineers, and partner with other teams.
You'll Thrive in This Role If You Have:
- Experience & Education: 5–8 years in cloud engineering, infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles; Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Cloud & Infrastructure as Code: Deep, hands-on AWS (ideally GCP) — EKS/GKE, Lambda, networking, IAM, S3, Kinesis, OpenSearch, Route53 — managed declaratively with Terraform at scale.
- Containers & Delivery: Solid experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) in a monorepo or multi-service environment.
- Observability & Operations: Modern observability tooling (Datadog or similar) for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting; supporting production systems, on-call, and debugging complex distributed systems.
- Coding: Proficiency in at least one of Java, TypeScript, Python, or Go for automation, tooling, and platform development; comfort with scripting and SQL.
- Communication & Leadership: Able to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, lead through influence, and mentor other engineers.
Helpful, But Not Required:
- Experience with edge and zero-trust networking (Cloudflare, Envoy/Gloo).
- Experience operating data and streaming infrastructure (Kinesis, Flink, Redis/Valkey, Confluent/Kafka).
- Experience enabling AI/ML infrastructure or developer tooling (Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, or LLM-based developer workflows).
- Experience with security and compliance practices, change management, and incident management at scale.
- Experience with GCP Workload Identity Federation and cross-cloud (AWS↔GCP) integrations.
Compensation Range: $215,000 – $240,000
OfferUp offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. Individual salaries within our ranges are determined through a variety of factors, including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. All roles will receive equity in OfferUp as part of their compensation, the amount of equity varying depending on the individual's level and experience.
Benefits (All US Roles): In addition to our compensation package, this role is eligible to enroll in health insurance, healthcare savings and spending accounts, retirement savings benefits (401(k) plan with match), basic and voluntary life insurance, disability benefits, and paid time off for sick leave, family and/or medical leave, vacation, and 12 company holidays.
OfferUp has a flexible vacation policy; full-time, exempt employees are expected to take 3–5 weeks (15–30 days) of pre-planned vacation per year. All full-time employees are granted 12 days (96 hours) of sick time per year. Your recruiter can share more details about specific benefits during the interview process.
About OfferUp:
OfferUp is dedicated to creating the simplest and most trusted way for people to buy, sell, and connect in their local communities. One of the top local marketplace apps for local buyers and sellers in the U.S., OfferUp makes it easy for people to discover more of what they need — from great deals and secondhand goods to jobs, services, home rentals, and more — right in their own communities. Our trusted platform empowers millions to connect, thrive, and move life forward.
Available on iOS and Android, OfferUp has consistently ranked among the top shopping apps. Founded in 2011 and based in Bellevue, WA, OfferUp serves local markets nationwide and was used by more than 1 in 6 adults in the U.S. in 2024. OfferUp is backed by leading investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Warburg Pincus, GGV Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Coatue Management. https://about.offerup.com
More About OfferUp At a Glance:
- Top 10 Shopping app in the App Store and Google Play Store for three years
- 15%+ of adults in several major markets use OfferUp every month (LA, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle, Las Vegas, Riverside, Orlando)
- OfferUp works directly with nearly 2,000 US law enforcement agencies to build trust in local communities
OfferUp is unleashing the power of local, and we've built a dynamic team to do it. To learn more about working at OfferUp, check out https://about.offerup.com/people
OfferUp provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
OfferUp expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
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