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. From revolutionizing power for AI-driven data centers to ensuring resilience for hospitals, electric grids, manufacturing facilities, and utilities, our solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) technologies are redefining what's possible by delivering energy abundance for all. With more than 30,000 fuel cell modules deployed worldwide, we are the trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies and innovators alike. Our cutting-edge solutions enable unparalleled "time-to-power" capabilities, reliability, and sustainability, ensuring our customers remain ahead in a world where soaring energy demand and intensifying energy scarcity are rapidly becoming the new norm.
We are looking for a
Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure team in one of today's most important technology areas. This role will be responsible for designing, building, automating, and operating scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, production workloads, AI/data platforms, and modern DevOps ecosystems.
This role will report to
Cloud Engineering leadership and will be based in
San Jose, CA.
Role and Responsibilities- Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, production workloads, AI/data platforms, and CI/CD ecosystems.
- Architect highly available, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized solutions across cloud platforms, with deep focus on AWS.
- 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.
- Integrate security, compliance, and operational controls into infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows.
- 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.
- Mentor cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure engineers while promoting engineering excellence, ownership, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident escalation processes for critical production systems.
Skills and Experience- 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.
- 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 in cloud networking and network architecture, including VPC, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, firewalls, routing, and BGP.
- 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.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale, cross-functional technical initiatives from strategy through execution.
Nice to have Skills- 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 developing reusable cloud platform modules, golden patterns, landing zones, or internal developer platforms.
- 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. We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants, will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions, unless undue hardship would result.
At Bloom Energy, we are committed to supporting the well-being of our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees includes competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a large employer contribution, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, generous Mental Health Support services, Legal services, virtual Physical Therapy access, and Fertility & Family Forming benefits.
Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
FULL TIME ROLE ONLY: 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
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