AWS Engineer & Senior AWS Engineer

Mandatory Requirement: 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems on AWS
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and DynamoDB
• Strong proficiency in scripting and backend languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, or Go
• Looking for an AWS Engineer with Java or Python, Node, strong AWS production Building experience

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement highly resilient, event-driven architectures using AWS Lambda and Step Functions
• Build serverless applications with scalable APIs,
  • asynchronous workflows
  • fault-tolerant patterns
• Leverage DynamoDB (including advanced partitioning strategies) to handle real-time data and state at scale
• Work around current AWS limitations
  • DynamoDB Global Tables not yet GA
  • multi-region solutions with low RPO and high durability
• Architect systems for low RTO/RPO disaster recovery
  • leveraging cross-region failover strategies
  • automation
• Implement observability and alerting
  • using CloudWatch
  • X-Ray
  • third-party monitoring tools
• Automate infrastructure with IaC tools
  • AWS CDK
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
• Optimize cold-start performance, event retries, and workflow orchestration for high-throughput environments
• Collaborate with product, backend, and platform teams
  • integrate infrastructure into CI/CD workflows
• Contribute to cloud engineering best practices
  • secure defaults
  • cost optimization
  • environment parity
• Mentor fellow engineers on cloud architecture and resilience engineering patterns

Requirements

You’ll bring:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems on AWS
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and DynamoDB
• Expertise in designing low RTO/RPO systems, multi-region architectures, and fault-tolerant workflows
• Familiarity with the current limitations around DynamoDB Global Tables and experience implementing workarounds
• Experience building real-time or near real-time event-driven systems
  • using SQS
  • SNS
  • EventBridge
  • Kafka (MSK)
• Strong proficiency in scripting and backend languages
  • Java
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • Go
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using
  • CDK
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
• Solid understanding of distributed system design
  • idempotency
  • retries
  • failure recovery
• Strong communication and consulting skills
  • ability to lead architecture discussions with stakeholders
• Bonus
  • Experience building for regulated industries or high-compliance environments
    • finance
    • healthcare
• Bonus: AWS Solution Architect Associate certification