Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Remote US

Type: Permanent
Category: Engineer
Industry: Technology
Workplace Type: Remote

Job Description:

Remote

We’re looking for a staff cloud platform engineer who thrives on building scalable, cloud‑native systems and owning complex features end‑to‑end. In this role, you’ll work across backend services, frontend and mobile applications, and infrastructure, designing and delivering production‑ready solutions running at scale in AWS. You’ll collaborate closely with product, QA, and operations while maintaining strong individual ownership, contributing to systems that blend modern cloud architecture with real‑world IoT applications.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Salary: $180,000-210,000 yr. w2 + Bonus
Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services running in AWS.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design for large-scale, distributed cloud deployments.
• Develop and maintain services using Node.js and other backend technologies.
• Design schemas and optimize query performance in PostgreSQL.
• Design, implement, and test infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK.
• Build and maintain frontend applications using React.
• Contribute to mobile applications built with React Native for Android and iOS.
• Develop software components in JavaScript/Node.js, Python, Rust, and C/C++ as needed.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, testing, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and operations while maintaining strong individual ownership.
• Own development, testing, deployment, and production readiness for assigned tasks.

Experience Requirements:

• Staff-level software development experience building cloud-based systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud architecture.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns.
• Experience writing, testing, and maintaining AWS CDK scripts.
• Expertise in IP networking, including TCP/IP and related protocols.
• Proven ability to work across the full stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, and deployment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.
• Experience with large-scale, production cloud platforms (preferred).
• Experience with IoT, device-integrated, or data-intensive systems (preferred).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments (preferred).
• Experience with performance tuning and observability in cloud environments (preferred).

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (noreply@eliassen.com, 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.