Senior Cloud & Full Stack Engineer

Role Name

Senior Cloud & Full Stack Engineer

Location

Los Angeles, CA. (Hybrid)

Ideal Candidate

A self-directed senior engineer who can own AWS operations, DynamoDB architecture, workflow automation, DevOps, production support, and high-traffic Next.js applications with minimal supervision. The successful candidate is equally comfortable resolving production incidents and delivering scalable platform and website enhancements.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS production environments.
• Design and maintain serverless applications using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
• Design scalable DynamoDB data models, indexes, and access patterns.
• Build and maintain automated workflows, APIs, and platform integrations.
• Develop and enhance applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Monitor platform health with CloudWatch; lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Optimize CDN delivery, caching, performance, SEO, accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and scalability.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years supporting production AWS environments.
• Experience operating high-traffic, public-facing websites and owning systems through production support.
• Strong AWS experience with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, CloudWatch, S3, SNS/SQS, IAM, Route 53, and Secrets Manager.
• Deep DynamoDB expertise, including access-pattern-driven design, partition and sort keys, Global Secondary Indexes, query optimization, and scaling considerations.
• Experience building event-driven architectures and reliable Step Functions workflows with retries, error handling, monitoring, and recovery.
• Strong development experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Next.js SSR, SSG, ISR, responsive development, SEO, accessibility, and front-end performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of CDN architecture, edge/API/browser caching, resiliency, and Core Web Vitals.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Glue, EventBridge, ECS/Fargate, or ETL and data-integration pipelines.
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, and stored procedures.
• Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Contentstack, or another headless CMS.
• AWS certifications and experience in media, entertainment, direct-to-consumer, or content publishing.
• Experience with AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar.