Remote AWS Node.js Architect — High-Impact Systems

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonuses

Generous PTO

Flexible working hours

Remote work

Continuing education and training

Coursework and certifications

Job summary

Bluelight seeks a senior software architect to design and lead complex, end-to-end systems across US and Latin America. You will shape low-latency service architectures in AWS, implement secure multi-tenant patterns, and drive architectural decisions with clients and security reviews.

You will mentor engineers, produce ADRs, and champion best practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams on challenging, high-impact projects.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with 3+ years in an architecture-focused role.
• Deep experience designing low-latency service architectures in AWS with distributed components.
• Experience designing to explicit latency budgets (p95/p99) and synchronous durable commits in hot paths.
• Experience designing audit/evidence systems (event logs, versioned models, historical replay).
• Experience with fail-open/fail-closed/degraded-state semantics and outage postures.
• Proven architecting secure multi-tenant environments (RLS vs. schema-per-tenant).
• Strong PostgreSQL/AuroraDB and Row-Level Security expertise at data-modeling level.
• Expertise in scalable RESTful APIs and SDK integrations.
• Leadership in architecture reviews, documentation, and mentoring teams.
• Experience presenting architecture decisions in client reviews and security reviews.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

AWS

PostgreSQL

AuroraDB

RESTful APIs

SDK integrations

Architecture leadership

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL/AuroraDB

Job description

Bluelight seeks a senior software architect to design and lead complex, end-to-end systems across US and Latin America. You will shape low-latency service architectures in AWS, implement secure multi-tenant patterns, and drive architectural decisions with clients and security reviews.

You will mentor engineers, produce ADRs, and champion best practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams on challenging, high-impact projects.