Senior Lead Software Engineer
On-siteJersey City, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Set technical direction and lead delivery for developer platform capabilities spanning AWS networking, EC2, and storage. Own Terraform strategy and execution, including enterprise module standards, state/backends, CI/CD integration, and environment promotion. Build platform automation and services in Python, ensuring secure-by-default designs with least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, and encryption. Lead design reviews, resolve complex cross-cutting technical issues, and drive reliability through automation and standardization. Mentor engineers, influence engineering best practices, and partner with architecture, security, and application teams.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams and initiatives
- AWS expertise, with deep hands-on experience in networking, EC2, and storage
- Terraform expertise, including enterprise-scale module development and operating IaC across environments
- Python expertise for platform automation and services
- Strong system design, CI/CD, SDLC, security, resiliency, and operational stability experience in production environments
Desired Qualifications
- Proven track record building and governing reusable Terraform modules (versioning, testing/validation, documentation, long-term maintenance)
- Experience delivering shared platforms/foundational services in a large-scale enterprise environment
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