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Cloud Engineer

AMISEQ
San Jose, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 8/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/2/2026

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, building cloud backends and data pipelines

Design, build, and own microservices and distributed backend systems from architecture through deployment and production operations

Lead technical delivery from architecture and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and operations

Work with product and design teams to deliver performant and reliable backend services and APIs

Champion software development best practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and test automation

Ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of backend and cloud systems at production scale

Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement within the engineering team


Must Haves

7 years of experience as a cloud or backend engineer

Experience designing and building microservices in a production cloud environment

Strong understanding of distributed systems — fault tolerance, consistency, and scalability at production scale

Strong experience designing APIs and building asynchronous systems with robust error handling

Hands-on experience with AWS, including serverless and cloud-native architectures

Experience with Azure services and Infrastructure as Code tools, such as API Management, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Azure Active Directory, or Bicep/Terraform

Familiarity with data pipelines and cloud-native data streaming tools such as Kinesis

Strong Python experience for backend services, automation, and tooling

Golang development experience for backend services

Experience with AWS services and Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, and CDK

Knowledge of observability, tracing, and system performance best practices for distributed backend systems

Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with distributed teams


Nice to Haves,

Experience with data streaming tools such as Kafka

Experience operating at scale — high-throughput, data-intensive, or large-scale distributed systems

Cybersecurity domain experience — IAM, access control, security-adjacent products, or experience building for security teams

Designing access control systems, such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Experience with version control, CI/CD, and build systems (e.g., GitHub Actions)

Familiarity with compliance and security standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, or CPRA in cloud environments

Startup experience and hustle


Why You'll Succeed

You take ownership end-to-end — from architecture and design through deployment and production support

You move fast without breaking things — high-velocity delivery with a track record to prove it

You can mentor and elevate the engineers around you

You thrive in ambiguity and can independently execute complex tasks with minimal direction


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