Senior Core Service Engineer

Wowza

full-time

Posted on: 9/18/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $100,000 - $175,000 per year

Senior

AWSCloudKubernetesPHPPythonReactRubyTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Create – Architect and build robust, maintainable, and scalable core services, focusing on revamping authentication mechanisms using modern protocols and AWS infrastructure.
Innovate – Keep abreast of the latest trends in AWS services, to lead cutting-edge developments and migrations. Keep pace with emerging standards in React and Serverless APIs and work on greenfield development. Your ideas will contribute significantly to our product roadmap.
Improve – Define and refine best practices for core service management, actively participating in design and code reviews. Enhance infrastructure code and service reliability with every iteration.
Learn – Engage with complex systems and deep domain knowledge in our industry. Continuously embrace new learning opportunities to stay ahead in the field.
Support – Collaborate with our Support organization to assist our customers with their challenges and incorporate feedback to improve our products and services.
Lead – Provide technical leadership within the team and across the company as a subject matter expert in core services, Serve as a subject matter expert full stack web application development, providing technical leadership within the team, the company, and the industry.

5+ years’ experience with Infrastructure as Code, with familiarity in Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or the AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit).
Expertise with Event-Driven Architecture and Domain Driven Design.
Strong programming expertise in at least one modern development language (TypeScript, Python) with an understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (bonus points for experience with PHP and Ruby).
Capability to learn new programming and scripting languages as needed.
Experience creating and documenting Site Reliability practices.
Experience creating and documenting public severless APIs
Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and associated tools
Strong background in managing and revamping authentication services, emphasizing OAuth 2.0 and other modern protocols.
Firm understanding of AWS services, particularly AWS Lambda and CloudFront, with a proven track record of successful migrations and service enhancements.
Experience with commercial CDNs (Fastly, Akamai), request lifecycles, and edge computing (e.g., Lambda@Edge).
Proficiency in Kubernetes and AWS ECS/Fargate, ensuring high performance and reliability of production systems.
Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to critical production issues.
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving.
Commitment to continuous learning and improvement in a fast-paced and evolving industry.