Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About Fulcrum: We’re a team of tech-savvy, creative & passionate IT professionals. We’ve created a vibrant and performance-driven culture for ourselves where everyone is free to think & act outside the box. There are literally no limits to what you can do here, as long as we WOW our clients and OVER deliver what we promise.

We are now looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (full-time, remote) to join our team.

About the project

We’re building a Canada-based digital platform in the real-estate domain, focused on improving the overall homeowner experience. The product brings together several interconnected services related to property ownership, management, and decision-making into a single user-centric ecosystem. It’s a complex, long-term product designed to support users throughout different stages of owning and managing a home.

This role has a direct impact on the product: the cloud infrastructure you build powers production AI-driven features used by real customers. You’ll work with modern cloud and Kubernetes architectures, support intelligent agents and semantic search at scale, and shape how the platform grows across regions. This is a true ownership role, where you lead infrastructure initiatives end-to-end and influence key architectural decisions alongside the CTO.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve production cloud infrastructure for a high-load, microservices-based product on GCP

• Design and operate Kubernetes and serverless platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability

• Lead infrastructure architecture for AI-driven features (intelligent chat, semantic search, vector search)

• Define and maintain CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response practices

• Architect secure and compliant systems, including authentication, data residency, and access control

• Optimize performance, scalability, and cloud costs for real-time user workloads

• Act as a technical owner and trusted partner to the CTO, shaping the platform’s infrastructure roadmap

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in cloud / infrastructure / platform engineering roles

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration

• Production experience with Terraform or other IaC tools

• Experience designing and operating authentication & authorization systems (OAuth2, JWT, Firebase Auth)

• Strong understanding of cloud monitoring, tracing, and structured logging

• Solid knowledge of cloud networking, load balancing, and distributed systems

• Experience operating high-load, production systems with real users

• Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. Firestore, MongoDB) and PostgreSQL

• Backend engineering experience with Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Java (Spring Boot)

• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration in cloud environments

• Strong ownership mindset and ability to make architecture-level decisions

• English: Upper-Intermediate or higher

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview (40 min)

• Technical interview

• Final interview with the Client

• What we offer:
  
  - Flexible schedule & opportunity to work remotely or workspace in Kyiv (kooperativ.cc);
  - Friendly & open team who have fun creating cool projects together;
  - Opportunity to boost your professional & personal growth;
  - Regular team gathering activities;
  - 20 business days of paid vacation + UA national holidays;
  - Medical insurance full coverage;
  - 10 + 5 days paid sick leave;
  
  

  How we operate:
  
  - We promise dramatic professional growth & interesting work
  - Bring ideas that will change how Fulcrum operates, and you will receive our gratitude and rewards
  - Your opinion matters. Fulcrum is not a typical ’bureaucratic company, and our employees are our core value
  - Your compensation grows with your responsibility zone
  - If something doesn’t go smoothly or can be simplified, just let us know — you are welcome to do so
  - You have a say in everything we do, starting from the roadmap, creating requirements, sprint planning, etc.
  - If you feel that everything above is about you, get in touch. We’re always glad to welcome stubborn, enthusiastic, and result-oriented buddies to our team
  
  Are you interested in working with us?
  
  LET’S MOVE THE WORLD TOGETHER!