We are looking for a hands-on AWS Platform Engineer with a strong software development background to help design, build, deploy, and operate cloud-based applications and platform services. This person should bring a developer mindset to platform engineering, with strong AWS experience, system design skills, and the ability to work across application development, infrastructure, deployment, observability, and production support.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and support scalable applications and platform services in AWS.
Develop backend services, APIs, integrations, and automation using languages such as Node.js and Python.
Participate in system design and architecture decisions around scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and modern CI/CD practices.
Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across production environments.
Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis across applications and infrastructure.
Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment processes, reliability, and overall platform performance.
Contribute across multiple areas of the technology stack and take ownership from development through production.

Experience:

Strong software engineering background with hands-on coding experience.
Deep hands-on experience building and operating applications on AWS.
Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB/RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC networking.
Strong system design and cloud architecture experience.
Experience with platform engineering, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production deployments.
Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling.
Experience with observability, monitoring, debugging, and production troubleshooting.
Backend development experience with Node.js, Python, or similar technologies.
Comfortable working in environments where engineers wear multiple hats across development, infrastructure, and operations.
CRM experience is a plus; Salesforce experience is not required.
Experience with AI assistants, Amazon Connect, Lex, or SRE practices is a plus but not required.

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