IoT Platform Engineer

Basebiz; United States; Remote; USD 38,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

SoftClouds LLC is seeking a seasoned IoT Platform Engineer to join our enterprise-grade IoT data ingestion and analytics platform. This hands-on role focuses on building scalable, secure, real-time systems across ingestion, processing, and REST APIs.

The ideal candidate has 9+ years of software engineering experience and strong AWS expertise to drive architecture, deployment, and optimization in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 8-13 years of professional software engineering experience with scalable systems.
• 6+ years AWS experience building multi-service architectures.
• 5+ years in technical leadership or lead developer roles.
• 3+ years managing or mentoring engineering teams.
• 2+ years working with IoT platforms, real-time data systems, or telemetry processing.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the planning, architecture, and development of software solutions for an enterprise-grade IoT platform.
• Write high-quality code for scalable, secure systems and APIs.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures with AWS services.
• Build serverless microservices with AWS Lambda and ECS/Fargate.
• Develop RESTful APIs with API Gateway and secure auth strategies.
• Optimize performance, JVM tuning, and query optimization.
• Drive deployment, monitoring, and improvement of AI/analytics components.
• Lead code reviews and establish coding standards.
• Collaborate with product managers, solution architects, data scientists, and vendors.
• Coordinate cross-team initiatives and risk mitigation.

Skills

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

AWS IoT Core

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

SQS/SNS

Kinesis

ECS/Fargate

API Development

Java 17+

Spring Boot 3.x

AWS SDK for Java v2

Lombok

Lambda PowerTools

Python 3

boto3

SQL

OpenSearch DSL

RESTful APIs

OAuth2/JWT/API Keys

Docker

Maven

Git

Event-Driven Architecture

Serverless Architecture

CQRS

ETL pipelines

Microservices

IoT Protocols (MQTT)

JUnit 5/testing

X-Ray/CloudWatch

SDLC principles

Tools

Docker

AWS ECR

Make

WSL2

Git

Job description

Job Title: IoT Platform Engineer

Location: 100% Remote (Hyderabad reporting)

Notice: Immediate

ONLY Face-to-face Interview

Salary: 36-42 LPA

Job Overview

SoftClouds LLC is looking for a Full-Time IoT Platform Engineer with at least 9+ years of experience for the position of IoT Platform Engineer for our engineering team working on our enterprise-grade IoT connectivity platform. This is a hands‑on development position implementing solutions across our IoT data ingestion platform and REST API services. Our platform processes telemetry data from construction and industrial equipment fleets, managing real‑time data ingestion, processing, and analytics at scale. This is a production‑grade system with sophisticated requirements around reliability, scalability, security, and real‑time processing.

Roles & Responsibilities

Technical Design & Development

• Participate in the planning, architecture, and development of software solutions, integrating AI, machine learning, and data-driven features where applicable.
• Write high-quality code to develop and maintain scalable, high-performance systems, emphasizing security and long-term sustainability.
• Design and implement event‑driven architectures using DynamoDB Streams, EventBridge, SQS, and Kinesis.
• Build serverless microservices with AWS Lambda and container‑based services with ECS/Fargate.
• Develop RESTful APIs using API Gateway with proper authentication, rate limiting, and caching strategies.
• Optimize system performance across the entire stack including JVM tuning, connection pooling, and query optimization.
• Drive deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of systems including AI models and analytics components.

Collaboration

• Conduct code reviews and establish coding standards across multiple repositories.
• Drive technical decision‑making and evangelize best practices for cloud‑native development.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including product managers, solution architects, data scientists, and external vendors.
• Coordinate cross‑team initiatives and integrations, driving dependency resolution and risk mitigation.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and PI Planning.
• Lead knowledge sharing around emerging technologies, AWS services, and IoT patterns.

Project & Process Management

• Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate solutions into broader systems and workflows.
• Monitor project progress, mitigate risks, and ensure timely, high‑quality delivery.
• Handle incident response and production support coordination.
• Provide technical estimates and capacity planning.

Troubleshooting & Optimization

• Troubleshoot performance, scalability, and security issues across distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Continuously optimize system architecture, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure costs.
• Implement best practices in monitoring, observability, and operational excellence (CloudWatch, X‑Ray, structured logging).
• Manage technical debt and drive system modernization efforts.

Strategic & Architectural Guidance

• Contribute to the organizations long‑term technical vision, emphasizing scalable architecture and responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
• Architect solutions across multiple repositories and AWS services.
• Make key architectural decisions regarding hybrid serverless/container architectures.
• Ensure all code and infrastructure align with internal standards and security requirements.
• Stay informed of industry trends, research, and emerging innovations in IoT, edge computing, and cloud technologies.

Required Experience

• 8-13 years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering scalable, reliable systems.
• 6+ years of hands‑on AWS experience building multi‑service architectures.
• 5+ years in technical leadership or lead developer roles.
• 3+ years managing or mentoring engineering teams.
• 2+ years working with IoT platforms, real‑time data systems, or telemetry processing.

Required Skills

• AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, AWS IoT Core, Dynamo DB, Open Search service, SQS/SNS, Glue, Kinesis, RedShift, ECS / Fargate, Step functions, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, S3 Data Lakes, Secrets Manager, X‑Ray, CloudFormation/SAM, IAM, VPC, Network Load Balancer.
• Proficiency in Java 17+ (5+ years of hands‑on experience).
• Proficiency in Spring Boot 3.x.
• Proficiency in AWS SDK for Java v2.
• Proficiency in Lombok.
• Proficiency in Lambda PowerTools.
• Strong knowledge of Python 3 for AWS Glue/PySpark ETL jobs and Python Shell Scripts.
• Proficiency in boto3 SDK for AWS service interactions.
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Proficiency in OpenSearch Query DSL.
• Proficiency in building RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in API Gateway Patterns, Caching strategies, Rate Limiting & Quotas, OpenSearch Integration.
• Strong knowledge in OAuth2, JWT Tokens, API Keys, IAM‑based auth.
• Proven experience with Docker, Maven, Make, AWS ECR, WSL2 and Git.
• Proven experience with Architecture Patterns like Event‑Driven Architecture, Serverless Architecture, CQRS pattern, Stream processing, ETL pipelines, Microservices Architecture, Circuit Breaker Pattern, Retry Pattern, Dead Letter Queue Pattern, Queue‑Based Load Leveling, Multi‑Tenancy Patterns.
• Strong Knowledge in IoT & Protocols like MQTT, UDP, Binary Protocol, Device Management, Telematics Domain.
• Proven experience with Unit Testing (Junit 5), Mocking, Integration testing, Load testing, Contract testing.
• Proven experience with Log4j2, X‑Ray, Trace Analysis, Service Map, CloudWatch custom metrics, business KPIs, SLI/SLO Tracking.
• Must be able to apply SDLC concepts