Sr. AWS Python Developer

Job Title: Sr. AWS Python Developer

Location: New York NY

Work Mode: Onsite (5 days a week)

Job description
Required Skills: AWS Python and media & entertainment domain experience are required.

The software developer will work on our clients team thats developing their next-generation cloud-based content distribution pipeline in AWS that is being used to distribute media files to partners worldwide. The role will be engaged end-to-end from understanding product goals and roadmaps through to solution design architecture build integration deployment and support. They will be responsible for the full SDLC of a software product that provides transformation of media files and content distribution services to its clients through a well-defined single point of integration for leveraging the clients globally distributed media storage and transcoding capabilities

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain highly scalable high-performance and highly available systems
• Write well-tested efficient and readable code
• The code should also be strongly structured with a view to reusability
• Ensure that all deliverables follow best practices around source control CI/CD
• Manage individual project priorities deadlines and deliverables
• Ensure that solutions are in line with the other deliverables of the team and produce documentation so that others learn from and contribute to the work
• Attend and contribute to meetings; complete tasks as assigned by supervisor

To be successful in this role the right software developer will have.

• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related discipline or equivalent experience of 5 years writing production code in Python.
• Familiarity with C a plus; 5 years of production experience with AWS certifications is a big plus
• Proficiency in designing and interacting with NoSQL databases like DynamoDB.
• Experience with relational databases (MSSQL PostgreSQL) a plus.
• Proficiency building serverless systems with ephemeral compute e.g. AWS Lambda and ECS and orchestration e.g. AWS Step Functions.
• Proficiency building event-driven architectures with message queues and topics.
• Proficiency identifying applicability of design patterns and implementing them
• Proficiency using AI-assisted coding tools and agents such as Cursor Claude Code or CoPilot
• Solid understanding of source control Git unit testing test-driven development and CI/CD
• Knowledge of defining packaging and deploying cloud resources in CDK strongly preferred
• Knowledge of deploying and managing services in Kubernetes is strongly preferred
• Knowledge of building AI apps on platforms such as Bedrock Vertex AI/Azure AI and familiarity with frameworks and tools such as LangChain and vector databases PyTorch Tensor
• Flow is strongly preferred Familiarity with the agile process stand-ups planning estimating and demoing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with media file container formats media/video engineering a plus

Skills

Mandatory Skills: AWS API Gateway AWS Cloud Architecture Python