Senior Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Colorado
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer jobs in Colorado are concentrated in Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs, where aerospace and defense contractors, government technology agencies, and a mature cloud-native startup ecosystem drive consistent demand for senior-level talent. Employers like Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and Maxar Technologies maintain significant engineering operations in the state and actively recruit engineers with expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, multi-cloud architecture, and platform reliability engineering. Demand at the senior level remains among the most active in the Mountain West, with roles weighted toward infrastructure automation, DevSecOps, and cloud governance. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Job Title: Senior Java Engineer - Cloud Platform
Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid)
About FusionAuth
FusionAuth is a fast-growing startup and leading provider of customer identity and access management (CIAM) software headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Our mission is to make authentication and authorization simple and secure for every developer. Our product helps businesses securely manage customer identities and access, ensuring a seamless and safe user experience for some of the largest brands in the world. We are committed to delivering exceptional value and satisfaction to our clients through top-notch service and support. With a great team and strong investors, we are expanding our team to help accelerate our growth and take FusionAuth to the next level.
Job Summary
We are recruiting a Senior Software Engineer who will join our engineering team to help us achieve these goals. This exciting role will allow you to build new features and extend and influence our existing product offering. While you'll be expected to contribute in all areas of the product, this role will have a strong emphasis on working on the FusionAuth cloud platform. For this role, you must be a creative and quantitative thinker. You should be interested in the authentication, authorization and user management space. You should be seasoned at writing secure and high-performance code. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, fast worker and excited about growing a company from the ground up. This position reports to the Head of our Platform Engineering Team.
Responsibilities
- Writing high-quality, performant, and secure Java code
- Connect unfamiliar technical concepts to your existing knowledge base and find pragmatic paths forward
- Balance immediate deliverables with long-term architectural thinking and planning
- Writing extensive and thorough tests
- Extending our cloud offering with security, scalability, and control plane features
- Helping to maintain and extend the FusionAuth Terraform provider
- Supporting other engineers with your cloud and platform expertise
- Writing clear, high-quality documentation for new features
- Participating in the on-call engineer rotation, solving critical customer issues should they arise. While not the norm, we do have some off-hours support requirements.
- Provide technical support to our customers
- Be a voice of positive change in the Engineering organization
Qualifications
Required
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 6+ years of experience with a heavy ops or platform engineering component
- Highly proficient in the Java programming language and object-oriented design and implementation
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS
- Strong platform engineering experience in a Linux environment
- Experience architecting, building, and managing complex application topologies on Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform
- Experience with designing and building high-availability, highly-performant applications
- Comfortable using AI tools in your development workflow
- Located in the Denver metropolitan area with the ability to come into our Westminster office 2-3 times per week
Preferred
- Experience up and down the entire stack, including cloud infrastructure, operating systems, databases, back-end and front-end services
- Experience with Golang development
- Real working knowledge of relational databases — you understand query optimization, indexing strategies, and database design beyond ORM abstractions
- Passion for security in general, and auth specifically
- Quick learner with the ability to rapidly master new technologies and skills
- Influential communicator: holds strong opinions but adapts flexibly to new information or team input
- Appreciates first principles thinking, but understands when it's time to stop theorizing and start building
- Adaptable to challenges common in a startup with ~60 employees and thrives in a dynamic startup vibe
Compensation
- $170k–$200k expected base salary range*
- Pursuant to various state laws, we must display the pay range for this job. Since we are willing to hire within a broad spectrum of qualifications, this range is broad. The expected base salary may be adjusted based on individual qualifications, role, level and location.
Onsite Perks & Campus Benefits
When you join FusionAuth’s Denver team, you’ll enjoy a modern campus experience designed for productivity, wellness, and community:
- Newly upgraded amenity spaces including a sleek tenant lounge and café with booth seating and collaborative workspaces.
- Access to a fitness studio, showers, lockers, and secure bike storage.
- Regularly stocked in-suite kitchen with a variety of snacks and beverages to keep you fueled throughout the day.
- Onsite café offering chef-driven menus with fresh, locally sourced, organic, and non-GMO options to suit diverse dietary needs. Easy ordering via app.
- 3-acres of green space, including communal parks and picnic areas, connected to miles of jogging, biking, and recreation trails.
- Yoga in the circle and wellness programs to enhance work-life balance.
- Dedicated outdoor workspaces and patio gathering areas.
- Ample on-site parking, easy freeway access, and high-speed fiber internet.
- Sustainability-minded campus and community initiatives, including support for regenerative agriculture programs.
Enjoy a high-tech business environment that inspires creativity and energizes your workday—all just minutes from the heart of Denver and Boulder.
Benefits
For full-time team members, we offer:
-
Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage, with the company covering the majority of your medical premiums to keep your costs low
- Fully employer-paid High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) option paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA), including employer contributions
- Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage fully paid by the company for essential financial protection
- Voluntary life insurance options to provide additional financial protection for you and your loved ones
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) to save pre-tax dollars on eligible expenses
- 401(k) plan with company match to help you save for retirement
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid company holidays to support work-life balance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering confidential counseling and support services
- Professional growth and development opportunities to boost your career journey
- Eligibility for performance-based bonuses or variable compensation tied to individual, team, or company results
Important Details
- Application Submission: We value authentic, thoughtful responses. Copy/pasted or AI-generated answers to application questions that don’t reflect your own experience may disqualify your application.
- In-Person Interview: Please be aware that participating in an in-person interview is encouraged so we can get to know each other. FusionAuth reimburses reasonable travel and lodging expenses associated with onsite interviews.
- Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
If you are passionate about technology that solves real-world customer problems, and want to join a company that is moving the industry forward, FusionAuth is a perfect fit for you!
Equal Employment Opportunity
FusionAuth provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Recruiters
FusionAuth does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of FusionAuth.
Job Title: Senior Java Engineer - Cloud Platform
Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid)
About FusionAuth
FusionAuth is a fast-growing startup and leading provider of customer identity and access management (CIAM) software headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Our mission is to make authentication and authorization simple and secure for every developer. Our product helps businesses securely manage customer identities and access, ensuring a seamless and safe user experience for some of the largest brands in the world. We are committed to delivering exceptional value and satisfaction to our clients through top-notch service and support. With a great team and strong investors, we are expanding our team to help accelerate our growth and take FusionAuth to the next level.
Job Summary
We are recruiting a Senior Software Engineer who will join our engineering team to help us achieve these goals. This exciting role will allow you to build new features and extend and influence our existing product offering. While you'll be expected to contribute in all areas of the product, this role will have a strong emphasis on working on the FusionAuth cloud platform. For this role, you must be a creative and quantitative thinker. You should be interested in the authentication, authorization and user management space. You should be seasoned at writing secure and high-performance code. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, fast worker and excited about growing a company from the ground up. This position reports to the Head of our Platform Engineering Team.
Responsibilities
- Writing high-quality, performant, and secure Java code
- Connect unfamiliar technical concepts to your existing knowledge base and find pragmatic paths forward
- Balance immediate deliverables with long-term architectural thinking and planning
- Writing extensive and thorough tests
- Extending our cloud offering with security, scalability, and control plane features
- Helping to maintain and extend the FusionAuth Terraform provider
- Supporting other engineers with your cloud and platform expertise
- Writing clear, high-quality documentation for new features
- Participating in the on-call engineer rotation, solving critical customer issues should they arise. While not the norm, we do have some off-hours support requirements.
- Provide technical support to our customers
- Be a voice of positive change in the Engineering organization
Qualifications
Required
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 6+ years of experience with a heavy ops or platform engineering component
- Highly proficient in the Java programming language and object-oriented design and implementation
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS
- Strong platform engineering experience in a Linux environment
- Experience architecting, building, and managing complex application topologies on Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform
- Experience with designing and building high-availability, highly-performant applications
- Comfortable using AI tools in your development workflow
- Located in the Denver metropolitan area with the ability to come into our Westminster office 2-3 times per week
Preferred
- Experience up and down the entire stack, including cloud infrastructure, operating systems, databases, back-end and front-end services
- Experience with Golang development
- Real working knowledge of relational databases — you understand query optimization, indexing strategies, and database design beyond ORM abstractions
- Passion for security in general, and auth specifically
- Quick learner with the ability to rapidly master new technologies and skills
- Influential communicator: holds strong opinions but adapts flexibly to new information or team input
- Appreciates first principles thinking, but understands when it's time to stop theorizing and start building
- Adaptable to challenges common in a startup with ~60 employees and thrives in a dynamic startup vibe
Compensation
- $170k–$200k expected base salary range*
- Pursuant to various state laws, we must display the pay range for this job. Since we are willing to hire within a broad spectrum of qualifications, this range is broad. The expected base salary may be adjusted based on individual qualifications, role, level and location.
Onsite Perks & Campus Benefits
When you join FusionAuth’s Denver team, you’ll enjoy a modern campus experience designed for productivity, wellness, and community:
- Newly upgraded amenity spaces including a sleek tenant lounge and café with booth seating and collaborative workspaces.
- Access to a fitness studio, showers, lockers, and secure bike storage.
- Regularly stocked in-suite kitchen with a variety of snacks and beverages to keep you fueled throughout the day.
- Onsite café offering chef-driven menus with fresh, locally sourced, organic, and non-GMO options to suit diverse dietary needs. Easy ordering via app.
- 3-acres of green space, including communal parks and picnic areas, connected to miles of jogging, biking, and recreation trails.
- Yoga in the circle and wellness programs to enhance work-life balance.
- Dedicated outdoor workspaces and patio gathering areas.
- Ample on-site parking, easy freeway access, and high-speed fiber internet.
- Sustainability-minded campus and community initiatives, including support for regenerative agriculture programs.
Enjoy a high-tech business environment that inspires creativity and energizes your workday—all just minutes from the heart of Denver and Boulder.
Benefits
For full-time team members, we offer:
-
Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage, with the company covering the majority of your medical premiums to keep your costs low
- Fully employer-paid High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) option paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA), including employer contributions
- Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage fully paid by the company for essential financial protection
- Voluntary life insurance options to provide additional financial protection for you and your loved ones
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) to save pre-tax dollars on eligible expenses
- 401(k) plan with company match to help you save for retirement
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid company holidays to support work-life balance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering confidential counseling and support services
- Professional growth and development opportunities to boost your career journey
- Eligibility for performance-based bonuses or variable compensation tied to individual, team, or company results
Important Details
- Application Submission: We value authentic, thoughtful responses. Copy/pasted or AI-generated answers to application questions that don’t reflect your own experience may disqualify your application.
- In-Person Interview: Please be aware that participating in an in-person interview is encouraged so we can get to know each other. FusionAuth reimburses reasonable travel and lodging expenses associated with onsite interviews.
- Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
If you are passionate about technology that solves real-world customer problems, and want to join a company that is moving the industry forward, FusionAuth is a perfect fit for you!
Equal Employment Opportunity
FusionAuth provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Recruiters
FusionAuth does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of FusionAuth.
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What Colorado Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior cloud platform engineer jobs across Colorado.
- Five or more years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience in enterprise environments
- Deep expertise with at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Proficiency in container orchestration tools, particularly Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Terraform or Pulumi at scale
- Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design, automation, and DevSecOps practices
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, or Google Professional Cloud Architect preferred
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior cloud platform engineer in Colorado?
Senior cloud platform engineer roles in Colorado do not require a state-issued license, so the path runs through demonstrated technical depth and credentials. Most hiring managers in Denver and Boulder expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, paired with industry certifications such as the AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator. Several years of progressive platform or infrastructure engineering experience, ideally in Colorado's aerospace, government tech, or cloud-native sectors, is what separates senior candidates from mid-level applicants.
How much do senior cloud platform engineers make in Colorado?
Senior cloud platform engineers in Colorado earn a median of about $138,390 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $96,480 for the lowest 10% to over $213,010 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior cloud platform engineers in Colorado?
Colorado senior cloud platform engineer roles are posted by Ombud, EchoStar, and FusionAuth and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Colorado's defense technology corridor along the Front Range, combined with Denver's growing cloud-native startup scene, means openings appear across both large government contractors and venture-backed software companies.
Which Colorado cities have the most senior cloud platform engineer jobs?
Denver and Littleton lead for senior cloud platform engineer openings in Colorado. Denver anchors the market as the state's largest tech hub, home to major cloud consultancies and SaaS companies, while Boulder's university research environment and startup density support strong demand, and Colorado Springs benefits from its concentration of defense and aerospace contractors such as Northrop Grumman and L3Harris that run significant cloud infrastructure operations.
Are there remote senior cloud platform engineer jobs in Colorado?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 100% of senior cloud platform engineer openings tied to Colorado are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how naturally suited platform engineering is to distributed work environments. The portions of the role most commonly offered remotely include infrastructure-as-code development, cloud architecture design, and CI/CD pipeline work, while on-call incident response and classified government contracts tend to require on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a senior cloud platform engineer in Colorado with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a junior or associate cloud infrastructure role at one of Colorado's large technology employers or managed service providers. Companies like Optiv, headquartered in Denver, and federal IT contractors along the Colorado Springs corridor regularly bring on entry-level infrastructure engineers who rotate through cloud platform teams. Earning an associate-level certification such as AWS Cloud Practitioner or Azure Administrator, then moving laterally from a systems administrator or DevOps support role, is the credential combination that most consistently opens doors for candidates without direct platform engineering experience.
Where can I find and apply to senior cloud platform engineer jobs in Colorado?
You can find and apply to senior cloud platform engineer jobs in Colorado on Migrate Mate, which lists current Colorado openings across the Front Range and beyond. Find the roles that fit your experience and specialization and apply directly to the ones that match.
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