Lead Cloud Engineer

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Mill

Compensation

$185,000 - $225,000/year

San Bruno, California

On-site

Posted April 2, 2026

Job Description

Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial—the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills.

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to lead our Cloud work across our AWS infrastructure. This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our end-to-end applications across web, mobile, cloud, and data that support our customer experiences.

In this role, you'll work with a cross functional group of engineers, guide architectural decisions, and help scale products that are critical to our success and growth.

What You’ll Do:

Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers building web and mobile applications, cloud backends, and data pipelines.
Lead end-to-end technical delivery—from architecture and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver intuitive and performant user experiences.
Champion modern software development practices, including CI/CD, IaC, observability, and test automation.
Ensure the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of our systems.
Promote a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications:

6+ years as a cloud (services) engineer / backend engineer
Strong API design experience, and an understanding of building asynchronous systems and error handling.
Hands-on experience with AWS (AWS IoT is a plus)
Familiarity with data pipelines and cloud-native data streaming and processing tools, such as Kinesis
Strong background in Python
Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably with serverless architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. API Gateway, Lambdas, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, and CDK).
Passion for building reliable systems with deep knowledge of observability, tracing, and system performance.
Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Skills: