Own the operational health of production across two AWS regions
Investigate production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive resolution
Build and maintain dashboards that give real-time visibility into application health, queue depths, API latency, and error rates
Monitor SQS/SNS queue health, dead-letter queues, and event processing pipelines
Expand observability beyond CloudWatch - evaluate and implement distributed tracing, APM, and log aggregation
Oversee weekly deployments to production
Own cost monitoring and alerting (Budget alerts, Cost Explorer)
Improve automated uptime and SLA reporting
Own and evolve all AWS infrastructure defined in CDK
Lead the migration to capturing 100% of cloud infrastructure in CDK
Manage and improve services: Lambda, ECS Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, WAF, Cognito
Support multi-region uptime, disaster recovery planning, and backup/restore practices
Improve cross-region replication and automated failover
Own deployment pipelines, release processes, and database migration safety
Support and evolve data pipelines used for analytics and product features
Set standards for how we ship, deploy, and operate software at scale
Maintain and harden AWS infrastructure with a strong security mindset
Own vulnerability remediation and SLA timelines
Help respond to security questionnaires and vendor assessments
Own and improve WAF rules, security groups, IAM policies, and network configuration
Own SecurityHub, AWS Config, VPC Flow Logs, and CloudTrail
Support GuardDuty malware scanning and S3 upload security
Ensure SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance across infrastructure
Manage secrets, key rotation, and access controls
Conduct periodic security reviews of infrastructure and application configuration
Triage and fix production errors surfaced by Sentry
Make small TypeScript PRs to backend services
Debug complex production issues that span infrastructure and application code
Participate in architecture discussions, especially around infrastructure and deployment concerns

Requirements

6+ years building and operating production systems on AWS
Strong experience with AWS CDK (we use CDK in typescript)
Deep knowledge of core AWS services: Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, IAM, VPC, WAF
Experience setting up and managing monitoring, alerting, and incident management
Experience with security hardening and compliance in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar)
Working knowledge of TypeScript or Node.js - enough to read the codebase, make PRs, and debug production issues
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar)
Comfortable owning production systems end-to-end in a small team where you're the expert
Strong English fluency - written & verbal communication (security questionnaire responses, etc)
US-based, able to work CST/EST hours (contractual requirement).

Benefits

Fully remote role (US-based)
Flexible, Unlimited Paid Time Off
Great medical, dental, and vision coverage
401k options
Yearly personal development budget that can be used for books, courses, trainings, and more
Office setup budget
Annual company and team events
Latest Macbook + enterprise tooling (e.g. Claude Code, etc)
Opportunity to gain exposure to applied RL and SFT work on foundational AI models
Clear growth paths for ICs (Staff/Principal) and managers (EM/Director).

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSAWS CDKTypeScriptNode.jsCI/CD pipelinesmonitoringalertingincident managementsecurity hardeningcompliance

Soft Skills

communicationproblem-solvingleadershipcollaborationanalytical thinkingattention to detailadaptabilityownershipteamworkcritical thinking