Senior Cloud Backend Engineer | Remote Serverless IoT

Waites Sensor Technologies, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Career growth

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Waites Sensor Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join a small, senior team responsible for modernizing our cloud platform. You will migrate legacy services to modern serverless architectures, build scalable backend systems, and gradually take ownership of critical cloud services under mentorship.

Based in the United States, Cincinnati, OH or Huntsville, AL preferred. Remote or onsite with remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services such as Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, or similar technologies.
• Development experience using Python and/or PHP.
• Strong desire to learn unfamiliar systems quickly while working through complex modernization efforts with attention to quality.
• Solid software testing practices and an understanding of how testing enables safe production migrations.
• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools and workflows.
• Strong communication skills with a collaborative, documentation-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Migrate business-critical scheduled jobs from legacy infrastructure to modern serverless cloud services.
• Build, enhance, and maintain backend services and telemetry ingestion pipeline components running on AWS.
• Gradually assume ownership of cloud services currently supported by other engineering teams, allowing them to focus on their core product areas.
• Develop and maintain automated tests that make platform migrations safe, repeatable, and reliable.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational improvements alongside the engineering team.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation as you become familiar with the platform.
• Leverage AI-assisted development, testing, and code review as part of your daily engineering workflow.
• Collaborate closely with senior engineers and technical leadership while documenting what you learn and sharing knowledge across the team.
• Continuously expand your technical ownership as your experience and confidence grow.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as needed to support business objectives.

Skills

AWS

Serverless architectures

Python

PHP

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Terraform

DynamoDB

RDS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQS

Kinesis

GitHub Actions

Job description

Waites Sensor Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join a small, senior team responsible for modernizing our cloud platform. You will migrate legacy services to modern serverless architectures, build scalable backend systems, and gradually take ownership of critical cloud services under mentorship.

Based in the United States, Cincinnati, OH or Huntsville, AL preferred. Remote or onsite with remote flexibility.