We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our platform team, focusing on cloud infrastructure, serverless application development, and platform reliability. This role combines hands-on development with technical leadership, requiring expertise in AWS, Python, and modern DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Reliability

- Design and implement multi-region AWS disaster recovery solutions, including fallback infrastructure for us-east-1 outages

- Architect and maintain highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure across multiple AWS regions

- Ensure infrastructure resilience through chaos engineering and disaster recovery testing

Development

- Develop and deploy new features using Python and the Open Source Serverless Framework

- Build and maintain serverless applications (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.)

- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices

- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design reviews

Platform Observability

- Design and implement comprehensive observability solutions for production platforms

- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as CloudWatch, DataDog, Grafana, or similar

- Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure platform health

- Create dashboards and on-call runbooks for incident response

CI/CD & Automation

- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment

- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)

- Implement security scanning, testing, and compliance checks in deployment pipelines

- Optimize build and deployment processes for speed and reliability

Team Leadership

- Mentor and manage development teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence

- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback

- Facilitate technical discussions and help unblock team members

- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver on roadmap priorities

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Python development skills

- 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, etc.)

- Proven experience building and deploying serverless applications (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions)

- Strong understanding of multi-region architecture and disaster recovery patterns

- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)

- Demonstrated experience setting up observability and monitoring solutions

- Experience managing or mentoring development teams

- Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud best practices

- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with the Serverless Framework (serverless.com)

- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar)

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation)

- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)

- Experience with observability platforms (DataDog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus)

- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queuing systems (SQS, SNS, EventBridge)

- Experience with testing frameworks and test automation

- Background in Agile/Scrum methodologies

- Strong communication skills and experience working with cross-functional teams