Senior Cloud-Migration Software Engineer

Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical Insurance

401K with match

Wellness program

Job summary

Panasonic Avionics Corporation in Irvine, CA is seeking an MTS III, Software (Senior Software Engineer) to modernize a critical legacy system and migrate a on‑premises application to AWS, creating a scalable, cloud‑based platform.

You will design scalable services and APIs, improve observability, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable, maintainable software while advancing the platform’s long‑term architecture in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/SE or equivalent experience.
• Strong PHP experience including modernization of legacy code.
• Proficiency with AWS cloud services and cloud-based architecture.
• 5+ years in at least one modern language (Go/Java/Python).
• Experience designing distributed systems with high reliability.
• Experience designing and optimizing relational databases and data models.
• Experience designing APIs and system integrations.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, data pipelines, or streaming systems.
• Experience with containers, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability practices.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction.
• Strong problem-solving and balancing migration goals with long-term architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and migrate on-premises systems to AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Modernize a PHP-based application to support scalable cloud deployment.
• Improve architecture, modularity, and maintainability while preserving integrations.
• Optimize database design and data access patterns for performance.
• Modernize background processing and batch workloads using cloud-native services.
• Ensure reliability, service continuity, and data integrity during migration.
• Develop testing, validation, and rollback strategies for production deployments.
• Create operational docs, migration procedures, and runbooks.
• Design and build scalable services and APIs to extend platform capabilities.
• Ingest and process operational data and system telemetry.
• Implement event-driven workflows and automation to improve efficiency.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and operational reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with long-term architecture goals.

Skills

PHP

AWS

Go/Java/Python

Distributed systems

Relational databases

APIs & integrations

Event-driven architectures

Containerization

CI/CD

Monitoring & observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Problem solving

Architecture balance

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Software Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Panasonic Avionics Corporation in Irvine, CA is seeking an MTS III, Software (Senior Software Engineer) to modernize a critical legacy system and migrate a on‑premises application to AWS, creating a scalable, cloud‑based platform.

You will design scalable services and APIs, improve observability, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable, maintainable software while advancing the platform’s long‑term architecture in a hybrid work setting.