Staff Cloud Development Engineer-1

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Job Description Summary:

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will spearhead efforts to ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of our AWS cloud infrastructure. This role is designed for high-level individual contributors who will lead one of three specialized domains: Data Streaming (Kafka), Database Architecture, or AWS Applications Development.

You will be pivotal in defining and implementing best practices for cloud architecture and service utilization across a broad portfolio of applications. Whether leading our event-driven evolution, safeguarding our data integrity, or refining our "golden path" for deployments, your technical leadership is needed to ensure ModMed’s cloud foundation is secure and scalable.

This position requires a consistent presence in our Boca Raton, FL office (3 days/week) to foster high-bandwidth collaboration and mentorship.

What you'll do

Collaborate with staff / architect group to produce standardized, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure, guardrails and best practices for development teams to deploy safely and quickly to production, with an emphasis on developer self-service

Lead technical strategy in the following areas:

Streaming: Architect, build and operate high-throughput event-driven systems using technologies like Apache Kafka, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform

Database: Architect, build and operate high-throughput event-driven systems using technologies like AWS Aurora, RDS, and NoSQL, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform; lead complex migrations, sharding strategies, and performance tuning.

AWS application development: Serve as the cloud lead for a subset of applications to guide their evolution towards efficient and standardized consumption of public cloud services, especially as it pertains to migration toward microservices running on Kubernetes.

Implement and refine monitoring solutions using observability tools DataDog, ensuring proactive issue identification and efficient resource utilization.

Lead the development of reusable IaC modules using tools like Terraform or Ansible to eliminate manual configuration.

Ensure strict adherence to AWS security standards and data protection regulations (SOC2/HIPAA) while balancing cost implications.

Mentor junior and senior team members, fostering a culture where every engineer is a technical leader in their area of expertise

Engage in face-to-face architectural white-boarding and cross-functional planning from our Boca Raton headquarters.

What you'll bring

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Minimum 8 years in Cloud Engineering, SRE, software engineering, or a similar role, with a proven track record of solving complex problems in large-scale public cloud environments (AWS preferred).

Extensive experience managing AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53) or similar in another cloud platform

Deep proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and other cloud-native technologies.

Proficiency in a high-level language (Python, Java, Node, Go, or others) preferred

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale

Demonstrated mastery in at least one specialized area (Distributed Streaming, Relational/Non-relational Databases, or application development in AWS).

Able to participate in an occasional on-call rotation to address high-priority production issues.

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ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

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• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
• 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
• Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

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