Software Engineer (Python) Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Development (AWS)

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

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