Sr. Software Engineer - AWS
Early Warning Services2 hours ago
Scottsdale, AZ, USASenior
Base Salary
$118k - $152k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, document, test, deploy, and maintain software systems, applications, and AWS-hosted services.
- Translate business and technical requirements into software designs, technical specifications, and implementation decisions.
- Contribute to architecture, code reviews, implementation, technical documentation, delivery planning, and operational readiness.
- Build infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, repeatable environment configuration, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Apply AWS security practices including identity and access controls, encryption, secrets management, secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, and logging.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, performance improvements, capacity management, resilience, fault tolerance, recovery, and continuity.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, database, integration, and network layers.
- Support testing and production operations, including incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and follow-through.
- Develop and maintain unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, and system tests.
- Evaluate technologies and AWS capabilities, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and support multiple initiatives.
- Mentor software engineers and provide guidance on design, coding, testing, cloud engineering, troubleshooting, and development practices.
Requirements
- Typically five years of experience or a demonstrated portfolio consistent with the role’s requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting production software applications.
- Hands-on experience developing or operating applications in AWS.
- Proficiency in at least one applicable programming language, such as Java, C#, C++, Python, or JavaScript.
- Experience with SQL, relational databases or other application-appropriate data-storage technologies.
- Experience with source-code management, peer reviews, automated testing, software development lifecycle practices, APIs, web services, distributed systems, event-driven processing, or asynchronous patterns.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, troubleshooting across technical layers, and test or production support.
- Ability to prepare technical designs, assess alternatives, communicate recommendations, collaborate in an iterative development environment, and mentor engineers.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS services and certification, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, containers, orchestration platforms, CI/CD pipelines, highly available AWS solutions, cost monitoring, observability, distributed tracing, centralized logging, automated testing, secure coding, UML, object-oriented design, service-oriented architecture, or domain-driven design.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model for positions in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with HSA contributions and FSA options.
- 401(k) plan with a 100% company Safe Harbor match on the first 6% deferred, immediately upon eligibility.
- Flexible time off for exempt employees or generous PTO for non-exempt employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave and Maven family-planning support.
- Normal office environment with primarily sedentary computer-based work and occasional physical activity.
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