Senior Software Engineer
America/Los_Angeles - PST / PDT
Summary
Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native backend systems and data platforms using Python and AWS. Proven track record designing secure ETL pipelines, event-driven microservices, and high-throughput data ingestion frameworks supporting enterprise and financial workloads. Strong expertise in AWS services including Glue, EMR, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis, and Lake Formation, with hands-on experience optimizing Spark workloads for performance, cost, and reliability. Known for delivering production-grade code, improving system observability, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet security, compliance, and SLA requirements in fast-paced engineering environments.
Expectations
Im looking for a role where I can build and operate high-quality, scalable backend systems while continuing to grow as an engineer. I value working on meaningful problems, owning services end to end, and contributing to well-designed architectures using modern cloud technologies. An ideal environment encourages clean code, reliability, collaboration, and thoughtful engineering decisions, with opportunities to learn, mentor, and make a measurable impact on product and platform outcomes.
Employment Preferences
Relocation destinations:
- San Francisco, California, United States
- San Diego, California, United States
- Sacramento, California, United States
- New York City, New York, United States
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
Expected Base Salary
**5,000 USD
Expected Total Compensation
**5,000 USD
Expected Hourly Rate
** USD/hr
Academic Degree
Experience
Total Professional Experience
Startup Experience
Big-Tech Companies
Enterprise Experience
Skills
- Python
- AWS
- Lake Formation
- AWS Glue
- EMR
- S3
- Glue Catalog
- Lambda
- Step Functions
- EventBridge
- Kinesis
- MSK
- EC2
- ECS
- Load Balancer
- Athena
- Airflow
- Spark
- Java Microservices
- REST APIs
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake
- Oracle
- Parquet
- Avro
- Iceberg
- JSON-LD
- IAM
- KMS
- Secrets Manager
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI
- CD
- GitHub Actions
- Data Pipelines
- ETL
- Distributed Systems
- Observability
- Logging
- Monitoring
- React
- JavaScript
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