Software Engineer II

About the role

The Software Engineer II plays a key role in planning, designing, and implementing software and infrastructure solutions that support highly available and resilient systems. This engineer works on cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and automation tooling that improves operational efficiency, and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Write code that impacts business goals, within guidelines and policies.
• Review code for design, logic, testability, usability, and adherence to standards.
• Strive for operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Develop specifications for assigned components, projects, or fixes, and breaks down projects into prioritized tasks.
• Build solutions that scale and perform in the cloud.
• Participate in project proposal, architecture, and design. Implement assigned projects and tasks efficiently and comprehensively.
• Participate in planning for short, medium, and long term goals.
• Oversee technical maintenance. Perform troubleshooting for systems that tend to be large and complex.
• Design, development, documentation, and testing.
• Apply experience to resolve a variety of issues across a variety of technologies such as software, IaC, networking, code delivery, cloud-native services, security, and others.
• Identify problems and opportunities and recommend solutions.
• Serve as a technical resource for less experienced software engineers.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of related work experience within the software infrastructure engineering field
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Well-versed in Software Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Ability to understand the business domain from both a technical and product viewpoint
• Minimum of 2 years experience working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Resources
• Proficient in Python and/or other comparable programming language
• Well-versed with modern infrastructure services and concepts such as containerization (e.g. Docker), distributed systems, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation), and microservices.
• Exposure to working with globally distributed teams
• Experience working within an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to improve code quality, accelerate development, and enhance documentation.
• Understanding of foundational AI/ML concepts, familiarity with cloud-native AI services such as model hosting, and/or ability to use AI tools to automate cloud operations tasks.