The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  StartupAdvantage is hiring a Cloud Engineer in Wilmington, NC.

• Role description

  Step into a senior engineering role where CI/CD and AWS Solutions Architect drive everything we build at StartupAdvantage. For someone 6 years deep in Relationship Building, this Wilmington job means $96,000 - $134,000, an internship cadence, and genuine influence.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Trim StartupAdvantage's cloud bill by right-sizing the PostgreSQL infrastructure in Wilmington, NC
  • Keep StartupAdvantage's Python CI under ten minutes so Wilmington, NC engineers stay in flow
  • Tune Relationship Building queries until the NC database stops timing out under load
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Load Balancing libraries
  • Hand off Stakeholder Management runbooks so the next on-call at StartupAdvantage sleeps better

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
  • The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire
  • The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
  • A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them
  • The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking

  StartupAdvantage is an autonomy-rich Wilmington, NC studio where CI/CD gets treated with the seriousness most companies reserve for marketing. We give people real $96,000 - $134,000 stakes in the outcome so ownership stops being a buzzword.

  At $96,000 - $134,000, with mentorship and a benefits suite to match, this Cloud Engineer seat at StartupAdvantage is built for people who want to rise.

  Right now, today, this seat at StartupAdvantage is genuinely empty and waiting.

  Skip the long deliberation; apply to the Cloud Engineer role and let us answer your doubts.

• Required skills

  • AWS Solutions Architect
  • CI/CD
  • Go
  • Load Balancing
  • Python
  • AWS Lambda
  • PostgreSQL
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Relationship Building

• Benefits & perks

  • HSA investment options
  • Prescription drug coverage
  • Casual dress code
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Ping Pong
  • Parking reimbursement
  • Company Outings
  • Pension plan
  • Hearing aid coverage
  • Unlimited PTO

• Apply before 2026-12-06

  Submit your application for this Internship technology position.