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As a Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering, you will join the EWOK team to design, scale, and operate a Tier-0 enterprise regional failover and disaster recovery platform. You will lead technical designs for distributed orchestration, cross-region replication, and automated testing frameworks to reduce recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives for hundreds of internal services. Your daily work involves building and operating services on AWS infrastructure, resolving defects, and participating in on-call rotations. You will utilize Python, Go, and AWS core architecture including IAM, Route 53, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and VPC networking. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, concurrency, circuit breakers, and chaos engineering. You will also leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to solve complex problems regarding high availability and cross-region data replication.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1123 postings across 74 companies.
Design, scale, and operate the enterprise regional failover and disaster recovery platform.
Lead technical design for distributed orchestration and cross-region data replication.
Build and scale services running on AWS infrastructure.
Develop automated testing frameworks to reduce recovery time and point objectives.
Participate in on-call rotations to drive incident recovery and Root Cause Analysis.
Resolve defects and bugs during QA testing, pre-production, and production phases.
Author architecture design documents to communicate complex technical trade-offs.
What we're looking for
5+ years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade, distributed systems at scale.
Deep technical proficiency in AWS core architecture including IAM, Route 53, Step Functions, DynamoDB, VPC networking, and cross-region data replication.
Strong production experience in Python and Go with a focus on concurrency, systems programming, and high-reliability backend services.
Practical understanding of disaster recovery patterns, circuit breakers, distributed state management, and chaos engineering principles.
Proficiency in leveraging modern AI-assisted engineering tools like Copilot and LLM agents to accelerate development.
Demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs, author architecture design documents, and influence cross-functional decisions.
BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.