LocalStack - The Local Cloud Sandbox for Developers and AI Agents

LocalStack is a fast-growing Series A startup revolutionizing cloud development processes and supporting highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. We closed our last $25 million funding round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV, and Heavybit.

LocalStack provides a local cloud development platform, making it easier, faster, and less expensive for software teams to ship reliable, high-quality applications to the cloud. As the world's leading local cloud development platform, LocalStack offers secure local sandboxes that simulate cloud environments, enabling AI agents and software developers to find and fix risks more effectively than in the cloud.

Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies, including NASA, Harness, IBM, Workday, Comcast, Apple, 3M, and Block.

We are sustainably growing our globally distributed teams across GTM, operations, and engineering. LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland, with a small engineering office in Vienna/Austria, and remote team members from 25 countries including the US, France, UK, Canada, and Spain.

Check our Notion Candidate Handbook and our GitHub!

What You Will Be Working On/Responsible For

• Own the internal cloud infrastructure and serve as the primary point of contact for cloud operations and infrastructure requests.
• Manage and continuously improve our multi-account cloud environment, ensuring security, governance, and compliance best practices are consistently applied.
• Support and maintain compliance with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, ensuring audit evidence is prepared continuously rather than only during audit periods.
• Operate and improve our identity and access management, including SSO, MFA, permissions, and joiner/mover/leaver processes.
• Maintain and monitor self-hosted internal services, ensuring they meet agreed service levels and that vulnerabilities are tracked and resolved efficiently.
• Monitor the security and health of our cloud environment through continuous posture management and proactive risk identification.
• Own infrastructure cost management for the services under your responsibility and help other teams proactively identify cost or reliability risks before they become issues.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our cloud platform.

Experience We Expect You to Bring to the Role

• Deep AWS experience at an organizational level: Organizations, Control Tower, multi-account landing zones, IAM/SCPs, Security Hub/GuardDuty, VPC, and multi-AZ networking.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as the only way infrastructure gets created: module design, state management, review, and promotion between environments. Tool-agnostic, but real depth in at least one (Terraform/OpenTofu, CDK, Pulumi).
• Understands how to evolve existing systems toward compliance: can analyze a running estate and determine necessary changes, in what order, to satisfy SOC 2 / ISO 27001. Having been through an audit or certification is a bonus, not a requirement.
• Internal workforce identity and access: IdP-backed SSO/MFA, centralized access management, automated joiner/mover/leaver processes.
• Self-hosting and operating shared internal tooling that other teams depend on: deploy, upgrade, back up, own the uptime.
• Observability and alerting design, plus on-call for a distributed team.
• Cloud cost management / FinOps fundamentals.
• Azure is a nice-to-have extension, not a requirement; AWS depth is what matters, but the estate is going multi-cloud so appetite for it counts.
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, and/or Go for tooling. Comfortable with ambiguity in a remote-first environment, and happy being the first hire in a function.

Values We Hold at LocalStack

• Care: We create with compassion. We prioritize empathy and understanding in every interaction. By genuinely caring for our team, customers, and community, we create an environment where people thrive and impactful work flourishes.
• Ownership: We own the outcome. We take responsibility for our work and are passionate about its impact. We foster autonomy, inspire ambition, encourage ownership, and empower everyone to unlock their potential and make an impact.
• Openness: We build trust together. We build trust through open communication and honest feedback. By sharing ideas and embracing diverse perspectives, we create stronger, more connected teams that work toward shared goals.
• Courage: We dare to innovate. We embrace bold challenges and take calculated risks to move the needle. We step outside our comfort zones, experiment fearlessly, and turn setbacks into springboards for growth.
• Excellence: We chase the extraordinary. We chase excellence by pushing boundaries and delivering results that go beyond the ordinary, constantly raising the bar and striving for greatness in everything we do. Excellence is not just the outcome, it’s how we approach every task with purpose, passion, and a commitment to delivering exceptional value.

Benefits

• Fully remote work
• Competitive salary
• Annual company retreat
• 2 extra company-wide holidays
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture (community guilds and online company events)
• Yearly bonus

Sounds Like a Good Match?

We'd love to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of cloud development at LocalStack.

To apply, follow the application process. Make sure to include a short motivation outlining why you are the perfect candidate for this role.

If your profile looks like a good match, our talent team will be in touch to organize further steps within 2 weeks.

Please note that due to a high volume of candidates, we cannot offer personalized feedback to each candidate.