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# Lead Software Engineer - Privileged Access Management

- **Company:** Arcus Search
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Python (Programming Language), Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudformation, Servicebus, Production Code, Front End Software Development, Route53, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/lead-software-engineer-privileged-access-management-city-of-london-london/2779047762-2/

## About the Role

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys designing systems, shipping production code, improving reliability, and making smart architectural decisions in a fast-moving engineering culture., * Strong experience building and running production systems on AWS

 * Deep familiarity with services like Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, EC2, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and Route 53
 * Excellent Python skills, plus experience with Go for high-performance tooling or services
 * Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
 * Strong systems design and architectural judgment
 * Comfortable taking ownership of complex problems with minimal oversight
 * Pragmatic mindset with a bias toward shipping and continuous improvement
 * Bonus points for frontend experience with Svelte or TypeScript

## Description

* Own systems from architecture and implementation through to production operations
 * Design secure, scalable, and highly reliable infrastructure services
 * Help shape technical direction and engineering standards across the platform
 * Work across Python, Go, and TypeScript - choosing the right tool for the job
 * Improve observability, reliability, and operational excellence across critical systems
 * Collaborate closely with engineers, security, and infrastructure teams
 * Solve hard problems around access control, automation, and cloud-scale operations


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