Senior Cloud Engineer

About Us

SharkNinjais a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeoples lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted global brands Shark and Ninja the company has a proventrack recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowedSharkNinjato enter multiple product categories driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham Massachusetts with more than4100associates the companys products are sold at key retailers online and offline and through distributors around the world.

AI at SharkNinja

At SharkNinja were building an AI-native culture. Were not waiting for the future; were creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly adopt new tools and continuously raise whats possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasnt been invented yet youll fit right in.

About the Role

At SharkNinja we create intelligent connected products that delight consumers and disrupt categories. Were growing our engineering teams across Firmware Cloud and Mobile App development building systems that integrate hardware software and digital experiences using AI driven processes to help accelerate design coding and testing.

Come help design and deliver cloud native solutions that power SharkNinjas connected device ecosystem. Youll build scalable backend services IoT connectivity platforms and APIs that enable seamless experiences between devices and mobile applications working on the cloud infrastructure supporting SharkNinjas growing portfolio of connected products.

What Youll Do

Development and engineering

• Design and develop scalable cloud services and APIs that power SharkNinjas connected device ecosystem.
• Build IoT connectivity platforms using AWS IoT Core that enable reliable device to cloud communication for millions of connected products.
• Collaborate with mobile embedded and hardware teams to deliver end to end connected product experiences.
• Work with product management to define and refine product requirements.
• Implement distributed systems using Lambda Docker Fargate and AWS services that integrate cloud infrastructure with mobile apps and connected devices.
• Write execute and automate tests to ensure reliability performance and consumer ready quality at scale.
• Monitor debug and optimize cloud infrastructure performance using CloudWatch for consumer scale deployment across diverse device ecosystems.
• Work closely with cross functional development teams spanning the entire software stack from embedded to mobile.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.

Technical collaboration

• Collaborate with senior technical leaders on cloud and IoT architecture decisions.
• Partner with QA mobile and firmware engineers to ensure seamless integration across the stack.
• Contribute to technical discussions and help refine engineering standards and patterns.
• Mentor junior and mid level engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
• Share knowledge and best practices with the broader engineering team.

What Youll Bring

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 4 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on cloud native development.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript Golang and/or Python.
• Solid experience with AWS services including Lambda IoT Core DynamoDB CloudWatch and SNS/SQS.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools AWS CDK preferred.
• Understanding of full stack system architecture and cloud to mobile integration patterns.
• Experience working with cross functional development teams.
• Knowledge of IoT protocols and device connectivity including MQTT HTTP/REST and WebSockets.
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to debug complex distributed systems.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• A passion for creating consumer friendly connected product experiences.
• Curiosity adaptability and a drive to be part of an A Player engineering team.

Preferred:

• Experience with AWS IoT Core Kinesis data streaming message queues (SNS/SQS) serverless architectures and containerization (Docker).
• Prior work with connected devices IoT ecosystems or large scale device management platforms.
• Knowledge of BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and WiFi connectivity protocols.
• Experience with TypeScript Python Rust Go C/C or other systems programming languages.
• Comfort with AI assisted development workflows and modern developer tooling.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock AI powered development tools or prompt engineering for software development tasks.
• Background in robotics consumer electronics or smart home products.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.

Technical skills required: TypeScript Python and Go; AWS services including Lambda DynamoDB CloudWatch and SNS/SQS; infrastructure as code via AWS CDK; IoT protocols including MQTT HTTP/REST and WebSockets; Docker for containerization; Git for version control; and AWS CodePipeline or similar for CI/CD.

Technical skills nice to have: Rust and C/C; AWS services including Kinesis Step Functions API Gateway S3 and Athena; BLE and WiFi connectivity; distributed tracing alongside CloudWatch; and AI tools such as AWS Bedrock Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.