Lead AWS Infrastructure Software Engineer IV

About the role

The Lead AWS Infrastructure Software Engineer IV will help scale the Platform Product team by designing, building, and evolving automated capabilities that are self-service, efficient, and dependable. They will also identify and drive opportunities that help teams adopt good cloud practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve automated capabilities that are self-service, efficient, and dependable and can be leveraged company-wide across engineering teams.
• Pick up new technologies, languages and frameworks quickly, apply them to your daily work, and share learnings to upskill the team.
• Work independently on ambiguous problems, drive designs to decisions, and mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical talks.
• Identify and reduce technical debt that increases risk or developer friction.
• Collaborate with your Engineering Manager and provide feedback on product roadmaps and backlog priorities.
• Coordinate with Product Engineering to design solutions that automate cloud processes across the SDLC.
• Suggest secure defaults and advise on clean coding practices, pipeline test coverage, and observability/alerting.
• Participate in standups, desk checks, tech huddles, and story grooming meetings to provide guidance where it moves the work forward.
• Record decisions, context, and outcomes related to design choices, and prepare Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Contribute with an AI-first mindset.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, administration, observability in a large and distributed environment working across multiple teams.
• Knowledge of cloud native event-driven microservices-based architectures, including operational concerns such as performance, resiliency, observability, monitoring, service discovery, and routing.
• 3 years as a full stack engineer building and operating services in production, including modern web frontends with React or a similar framework.
• 3 years coding in higher-level languages such as Python or Java in a multi-team codebase.
• Experience implementing cloud native solutions that integrate smoothly into teams’ development lifecycles, with measurable improvement to developer experience.
• Experience deploying organization-wide secrets as a service and integrating with pipelines and runtime applications.
• Strong knowledge of containers and Kubernetes, APIs, and web services, including building services with FastAPI or similar frameworks.
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure via UI, API, and CLI or automation.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform and automation via API or CLI.
• Experience in leading architecture design and solutioning of green field and brown field projects.
• Experience with CI/CD principles and the ability to diagnose and improve pipeline issues.
• Familiarity with common DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, or GitHub, and similar.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor, influence, and collaborate across teams.
• AWS solutions Architect certification is preferred.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Experience with cloud native event-driven microservices-based architectures.
• Experience with cloud native solutions that integrate smoothly into teams’ development lifecycles.
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices.

Skills

• Experience with cloud native event-driven microservices-based architectures.
• Experience with cloud native solutions that integrate smoothly into teams’ development lifecycles.
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

Pay

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $134,100.00 – $223,500.00. This role is eligible for an incentive target of up to 15 % or $ , based on the achievement of individual and company performance objectives in accordance with the current terms of the incentive program which are subject to change.

Schedule

Hybrid

Application Instructions

Please submit your resume and cover letter detailing your experience and qualifications for the Lead AWS Infrastructure Software Engineer IV position. Interviews will be conducted via video call.