Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS/Python (Pre-Trade, Hybrid)

Talan; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary USD 130k-170k

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation 15 days + 27

8 holidays + 5 sick + 2 personal days

Health, dental, vision + FSA

Voluntary STD/LTD

Job summary

Talan in Houston, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specialized in AWS and Python to design, develop, deploy and support secure cloud applications for pre-trade, market data, pricing and analytics. The role emphasizes scalable data pipelines, APIs, microservices, and IaC with Terraform/AWS CDK/CloudFormation.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of data engineering and 5+ years on major cloud platforms, plus strong CI/CD, observability, and mentoring skills. Hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput, reliable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• 5+ years hands-on with AWS/Azure/GCP including S3, Glue, Redshift, ADF, BigQuery.
• Strong CI/CD, Git, production support, observability, and incident management (AWS Glue environments).
• Experience designing APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS).
• IaC experience using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation; AWS cert preferred.
• Bachelor degree in CS/Engineering/Finance or Quantitative finance

Responsibilities

• Build and support cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions on AWS.
• Develop backend services and automation in Python.
• Design services handling market data, pricing, analytics, and pre-trade workflows.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Apply cloud security and secure software-development best practices.
• Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, and AWS costs.
• Lead technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture reviews.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python

AWS

Azure/GCP

CI/CD

Docker

ECS/EKS

IaC

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

APIs & microservices

Distributed systems

Observability

Incident management

Code reviews

Mentoring

SQL

BigQuery

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering/Finance or Quantitative finance

Tools

Docker

ECS/EKS

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

S3

Glue

Redshift

BigQuery

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Talan in Houston, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specialized in AWS and Python to design, develop, deploy and support secure cloud applications for pre-trade, market data, pricing and analytics. The role emphasizes scalable data pipelines, APIs, microservices, and IaC with Terraform/AWS CDK/CloudFormation.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of data engineering and 5+ years on major cloud platforms, plus strong CI/CD, observability, and mentoring skills. Hybrid work model.