Technical Lead (Go + Python) — AWS Data Pipelines

THOUGHT BYTE; México; Presencial; MXN 1.000.000 - 1.600.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

THOUGHT BYTE in Mexico is seeking a Technical Lead Engineer with deep AWS cloud-native architecture and event-driven data platform engineering. This role leads design and delivery of a modernization program, migrating a legacy pipeline to DynamoDB Streams, MSK, and EKS, owning end-to-end technical delivery—from architecture to CI/CD and documentation.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years backend or cloud experience, 3+ years in a lead role, strong Go and Python skills, and proven ability to define

Formación

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of backend or cloud engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a technical lead or senior engineer role with end-to-end delivery ownership.
• Strong written communication — architecture documents and stakeholder-ready reports.

Responsabilidades

• Architecture & Design: Drive end-to-end technical design and hands-on delivery of event-driven data pipelines on AWS; define service boundaries, integration patterns, and technical approach in close collaboration with the engineering team.
• Event Pipeline Engineering: Build and configure DynamoDB Streams producers and AWS Lambda connector functions; implement AWS MSK (Kafka) entity linkages and own topic schema validation.
• Backfill Pipeline Engineering: Build and lead execution of S3 and Lambda-orchestrated backfill pipelines; define per-stage validation criteria and rollback strategies.
• Integration Testing: Own end-to-end integration testing to validate data fidelity across distributed pipeline components; define acceptance criteria and sign off on fidelity targets.
• Container Migration: Lead migration of services from AWS Lambda to Amazon EKS; build and maintain Circle CI and Argo CD CI/CD pipelines for containerized deployments.
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to and review all engineering deliverables; define Definition of Done criteria per phase; champion code quality, test coverage, and security standards across the team.
• Documentation & Handoff: Produce deployment runbooks, pipeline documentation, architecture diagrams, and AWS Well-Architected alignment summaries.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate cross-team technical dependencies; liaise with client engineering and AWS platform teams; escalate blockers promptly.

Conocimientos

Go

Python

DynamoDB Streams

AWS Lambda

Argo CD

Helm

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

TypeScript

Kafka

SNS/SQS

Schema Registry

AWS Best Practices

Monitoring - New Relic

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Herramientas

CircleCI

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Descripción del empleo

THOUGHT BYTE in Mexico is seeking a Technical Lead Engineer with deep AWS cloud-native architecture and event-driven data platform engineering. This role leads design and delivery of a modernization program, migrating a legacy pipeline to DynamoDB Streams, MSK, and EKS, owning end-to-end technical delivery—from architecture to CI/CD and documentation.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years backend or cloud experience, 3+ years in a lead role, strong Go and Python skills, and proven ability to define