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Staff Engineer – Engineering Platform

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2014H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

California

Posted

20 days ago

Salary

$155K - $225K / year

10 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerDynamo DBIo TJavaKubernetesSpringSpring BootSpring BootSQL

Job Description

• Lead architecture, scalability, and modernization across Java-based cloud platform • Drive design and evolution of mission-critical services powering large-scale IoT ecosystem • Define and evolve scalable, high-availability distributed system architecture • Develop high-performance backend services using Java and Spring Boot • Optimize systems for scalability, low latency, and reliability under heavy load • Strengthen CI/CD, containerization, and deployment automation practices • Architect and operate cloud-native systems on AWS • Leverage AI tools to accelerate design, refactoring, testing, and modernization • Influence technical direction across teams

Job Requirements

10+ years of backend engineering experience, primarily in Java
Strong expertise in Spring Boot and distributed systems architecture
Proven experience building and operating large-scale production systems on AWS (7+ years preferred)
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
Advanced experience with SQL and DynamoDB
Experience operating high-throughput systems (1M+ requests/min)
Real-time or event-driven systems expertise (MQTT, streaming)
Strong understanding of observability, distributed tracing, and performance tuning
Solid knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC and security best practices
Demonstrated cross-team technical leadership and mentorship capability
IoT or event-driven domain experience preferred