Senior Cloud Applications Architect - AWS & AI

Robots and Pencils; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Senior Cloud Application Architect to shape cloud-native solutions on AWS and lead delivery from design through production. You’ll decompose systems, craft API boundaries, and drive infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated testing on real client platforms.

You’ll work with senior architects and product partners to balance cost, performance, and resilience, mentoring engineers as architectural ownership grows while delivering scalable, secure enterprise

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on experience designing cloud-native applications.
• Experience building microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC and working with API gateways.
• Understanding of cloud security, identity, and access management fundamentals.
• Experience integrating AI or LLM services into applications, including RAG or inference patterns.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design of cloud-native applications, helping define service boundaries, API contracts, and data flows on AWS.
• Build and deploy microservices and serverless functions using containers and managed compute.
• Implement event-driven patterns and asynchronous messaging between services.
• Design and implement APIs across protocols and gateways.
• Support infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines that make deployments repeatable and safe.
• Implement observability, scalability, and resilience practices so applications stay healthy under load.
• Apply AWS Well-Architected practices for security, reliability, and cost across the services you build.
• Build and integrate AI and LLM services into cloud applications, including RAG and inference workflows.

Skills

AWS

Cloud-native design

Python

TypeScript

Java

Go

Microservices

Serverless

APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

CI/CD automation

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Senior Cloud Application Architect to shape cloud-native solutions on AWS and lead delivery from design through production. You’ll decompose systems, craft API boundaries, and drive infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated testing on real client platforms.

You’ll work with senior architects and product partners to balance cost, performance, and resilience, mentoring engineers as architectural ownership grows while delivering scalable, secure enterprise