Senior AWS Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior AWS Software Engineer

Description

Design, develop, and maintain large-scale backend systems, cloud services, and data processing pipelines. Build secure, reliable, and scalable distributed systems and APIs using Python and AWS, including cloud-native serverless and event-driven architectures. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end digital health features with consistent backend APIs and data contracts.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale backend systems, cloud services, and data processing pipelines

• Build secure, reliable, and scalable distributed systems and APIs using Python and AWS

• Collaborate with product, data science, mobile (iOS/Android/Web), QA, and UX to deliver digital health features

• Develop serverless and event-driven solutions (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SNS/SQS, RDS) and automate deployments with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or AWS CDK)

• Build and operate data engineering pipelines using data lakes and SQL/NoSQL stores

• Monitor and improve performance, availability, and operational reliability using observability tools (e.g., Datadog); support alerting and on-call as needed

• Perform code reviews with security checks; write unit tests and automate functional testing where feasible

• Drive cloud development best practices across CI/CD, testing, operational excellence, and security/privacy compliance for sensitive health data

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership via design reviews and architecture improvements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

• 5 years progressive AWS software development experience

• 3 years Python backend development and API implementation (RESTful services)

• 3 years AWS cloud-native/serverless development using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SNS/SQS, and IAM

• 3 years designing and implementing distributed systems and scalable microservices, including event-driven architectures

• 2 years data engineering and pipeline development using SQL

• 2 years relational and NoSQL database work (schema/design and performance tuning)

• 2 years Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AWS CDK

• 2 years monitoring/alerting/operational support using Datadog or equivalent observability tools

• 2 years Git and modern CI/CD pipelines with code quality tooling

• 2 years designing systems for security, privacy, cost efficiency, and 24/7 reliability

• 2 years production-scale container-based architecture (Docker, ECS/EKS) or serverless architectures

• 2 years message brokering and pub/sub patterns (SNS/SQS or equivalent) and high-throughput processing concepts

• Experience working in Agile (Scrum) with CI practices

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and life, AD&D

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance

• Sleep care management

• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Commuter benefits

• 401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Tuition assistance

• Paid Time Off: 3 weeks in first year; plus 11 paid holidays and 3 floating days

• Caregiver leave: 14 weeks primary caregiver or 2 weeks secondary caregiver when welcoming new family members

• Base pay range: $191,693 - $221,000/yr