Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer – Scale, Security & Automation

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 13,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Stock incentives

Discretionary quarterly bonus

PTO & holidays

Job summary

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. is seeking a senior cloud engineer to own and shape AWS design and governance at scale, spanning multi-account structures, identity, and platform services.

You will work primarily in TypeScript and Python, building secure, reliable systems, and participating in on-call production operations to keep teams moving quickly with high reliability and compliance.

Qualifications

• Senior-level software engineering with hands-on AWS production experience.
• Strong full-stack capability in TS and Python, including APIs and cloud automation.
• Experience with Pulumi/SST; Terraform or AWS CDK experience is transferable.
• Experience operating in regulated or audit-ready environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS architecture for enterprise workloads, including multi-account foundations and security baselines.
• Establish and continuously improve AWS governance, tagging, cost controls, and audit readiness.
• Design and operate identity and access across AWS with IAM, SSO integrations, and least-privilege.
• Build, harden, and operate AWS platforms using TypeScript and Python; include compute, containers, serverless, data stores.
• Drive operational excellence with monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, runbooks, and on-call participation.
• Automate infrastructure and delivery through IaC (Pulumi/SST) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor engineers and translate needs into secure, maintainable solutions.

Skills

AWS at scale

TypeScript & Python

Security & Compliance

On-call ownership

Cloud automation

Tools

Pulumi

SST

Terraform

AWS CDK

Bitbucket Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Job description

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. is seeking a senior cloud engineer to own and shape AWS design and governance at scale, spanning multi-account structures, identity, and platform services.

You will work primarily in TypeScript and Python, building secure, reliable systems, and participating in on-call production operations to keep teams moving quickly with high reliability and compliance.