Cloud Engineering · Seattle
Cloud Engineering
in Seattle
Production cloud infra without the DevOps headcount. CI/CD, observability, secrets management, on-call.
Most early-stage SaaS doesn't need a DevOps hire. It needs someone who has set up production CI/CD, structured logging, secrets management, and on-call escalation enough times to get it right the first time. We build that foundation on Vercel, AWS, or GCP — whatever fits your stack and budget — then hand back a runbook so your engineers can ship without page duty becoming a full-time job.
Engagement shape
From
$4,000
Flat price, quoted after 30-min call
Timeline
7–10 days
First production deploy
1
Senior engineer, named
Day 1
Code in your GitHub
$0
Retainer, equity, lock-in
How this works
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships cloud engineering that used to need a four-person team. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in Seattle who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why cloud engineering is hard in Seattle
Seattle founders have access to deep technical talent that's mostly busy. The candidates who do interview want AWS comp, or are leaving to start their own thing. Either way, your 90-day hiring cycle becomes 180.
Different math: one named senior engineer plus AI agents, Pacific Time, ships in two weeks. Flat-price quote after a 30-minute call. AWS-native by default — Bedrock, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 — same stack your team already runs. Code in your GitHub from commit one. Walk away clean at the end.
Hiring one senior engineer here is a ~$310K year-one outlay and a 60–90 day search. Our cloud engineering engagement starts at $4,000 with a first deploy in 7–10 days.
Did you know · Seattle
Amazon employs more people in Seattle than the next nine largest local employers combined.
Time zone
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Pacific Time, same window as your team, your customers in Bellevue, and the Big-Tech mafia your investors keep mentioning.
Sectors in Seattle
Stack we use
What you actually get
Concrete deliverables.
Live in 7–10 days.
No discovery phase that bills for itself. No Figma-only delivery. Every item below is something you can open, click, and ship to a user.
CI/CD pipeline with preview deploys, test gating, and rollback on failure
Observability: Sentry for errors, structured logs to a real human inbox, basic dashboards
Secrets in a vault (1Password, Doppler, or AWS Secrets Manager), rotated and audited
Runbook: what the on-call does at 2am, escalation paths, common failure recipes
Why us
Why founders in Seattle pick us for this
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Production-first defaults — every config we ship has survived at least one real incident
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Stack-pragmatic — we don't push Kubernetes when Vercel Functions are the right answer
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Flat-price means we want to ship the simplest working thing, not the most billable thing
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Handover documents are written for your engineers, not for our retention
Cloud Engineering we've shipped
Founders we shipped cloud engineering with
Real founders, real product, real testimonials. The kind of cloud engineering work we'd do for you in Seattle.
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Common questions about cloud engineering
in Seattle
Do you do Kubernetes?
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Can you migrate us off Heroku / DigitalOcean / Render?
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Do you support our existing AWS account?
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What about SOC 2 / ISO?
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