Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer
Posted on August 19, 2025 (21 days ago)
About the Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer at Headspace:
At Headspace, we're pushing boundaries with cutting-edge innovations and a relentless focus on reliability, scalability, and purpose-driven impact. As a Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer, you'll lead the charge in refining our cloud strategies, driving technical excellence, and ensuring our infrastructure is secure, efficient, and poised for growth. Join us in transforming the way we approach cloud solutions while advancing your career in a dynamic and meaningful environment where your expertise truly makes a difference.
You will support our efforts to bring innovative features to life, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and ensure our platform's reliability and scalability for over 65 million users. A big goal needs talented leadership, so come join us and give your career a sense of purpose!
Location: We are currently hiring this role remotely in the US and Hybrid for San Francisco (SF) and Los Angeles (LA). Candidates must permanently reside in the US full-time. For candidates with a primary residence in the greater SF and LA areas, this role will follow our hybrid model. You’ll work 3 days per week from our office, allowing for impactful in-office collaboration and connection, while enjoying the flexibility of remote work for the rest of the week.
What you will do:
- Provide oversight and challenge to our public cloud strategy, operation, tooling, processes, and requirements
- Influence Headspace’s cloud architecture and design decisions, representing our corporate risk appetite
- Work closely with enterprise architects, product managers, cloud engineers, and to understand our processes and approaches and influence change where appropriate
- Challenge platform architecture and engineering standards and ensure compliance
- Advise on best practices and approaches to implementation
- Provide oversight and challenge to our containerization and serverless strategies and implementations
- Establish Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to accurately measure and track our public cloud infrastructure’s compliance with our risk appetite
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent
- Deep understanding of AWS services and capability to automate infrastructure provisioning, and ability to drive technical innovation and deliver high-impact projects in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with networking principles and technologies such as DNS, Load Balancers, Shared VPCs, VPN Solutions
- Experience with AWS and GCP architectural principles and key services like AWS Global infrastructure, VPC, S3, EC2, Route 53, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect
- Use Terraform for infrastructure automation to develop reusable and modular configurations for automating cloud resource provisioning
- Work closely with compliance, engineering, and data teams to align infrastructure management with application requirements
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure designs, processes, and procedures for both internal and external stakeholders
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in healthcare
Pay & Benefits:
The anticipated new hire base salary range for this full-time position is $122,400.00 - $234,600.00 + equity + benefits. Salary ranges are based on job, level, and location within the United States. Individual compensation considers location, relevant experience, skills, and education/training. The Total Rewards package includes base salary, stock awards, healthcare, wellness stipend, retirement match, membership, parental leave and more.
About Headspace
Headspace provides lifelong mental health support to millions worldwide combining evidence-based content, clinical care, and innovative technology. Their values include Making the Mission Matter, Iterating to Great, Owning the Outcome, and Connecting with Courage. They embrace a collaborative, inclusive culture and aim to reshape mental health care.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- A mission with visible impact
- Collaborative, inclusive culture grounded in values
- Opportunity to influence mental health care evolution
- Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging:
Headspace is committed to a safe, welcoming, diverse and inclusive work environment free from discrimination and harassment. They are an equal opportunity employer complying with EEOC laws. Reasonable accommodations are provided for applicants with disabilities. Ethical guidelines are maintained to avoid dual relationships in care provision.
Headspace participates in the E-Verify Program. Privacy policies govern member records and employee benefits, ensuring ethical standards in mental health care relationships and employment practices.
Apply through the Headspace job portal at https://www.headspace.com/join-us or the Greenhouse job board.
Candidates must reside in the US permanently for full-time employment. For residents in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the role follows a hybrid model with three days in-office and the rest remote. Recruiters will provide further hybrid work details during hiring.
Supported documentation including resume/CV, cover letter, and other application details should be submitted online as part of the application process.
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