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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Five9's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Five9's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Five9
- high 123 stale, 4 reposted of 124 open
- Hiring momentum
- 210 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Five9's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Five9.
About this role
The Cloud Governance Engineer role at Five9 focuses on defining and enforcing governance policies for a multi-cloud environment, primarily GCP, with some AWS and Azure. Daily tasks include documenting cloud governance standards, managing the exception process, collaborating with various stakeholders, and building dashboards to track governance metrics. This position emphasizes risk assessment and communication with non-technical audiences rather than infrastructure building or operations.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Five9 as an employer.
What you need
- 4+ years working in public cloud environments
- At least 2 years hands-on experience with GCP
- Experience implementing preventative guardrails in GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience authoring cloud policies or standards
- Experience running or contributing to an exception or waiver process for cloud controls
- Working knowledge of cloud IAM, network security, encryption, and key management
Nice to have
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification
- Experience with policy-as-code tooling like OPA or Sentinel
- Familiarity with cloud cost tooling
- Knowledge of control frameworks like SOC 2 or HIPAA
- Kubernetes governance experience
Worth weighing
- This role is governance-focused, not suited for those looking to build and run infrastructure.
- Requires regular communication with US-based colleagues, which may involve time zone challenges.
- The position is hybrid, requiring 3 days a week in the office.
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Listed by Five9 on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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