[Remote] Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Engineer – Fully Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alphanumeric Systems is hiring a Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Engineer to support a global leader dedicated to improving lives through medical and pharmaceutical innovation. The role combines hands-on application development with cloud engineering, requiring the design and implementation of reliable, scalable, secure cloud-native applications and infrastructure. The engineer will translate loosely defined requirements into technical solutions, collaborate across teams, and contribute to software quality, security, CI/CD, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native applications
- Translate business and technical requirements into well-designed software solutions and technical specifications
- Develop and maintain production-quality software within modern cloud environments
- Design solutions across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS), with GCP strongly preferred
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
- Partner with product teams, software engineers, cloud engineers, and internal and external stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
- Apply software engineering best practices to system design, implementation, testing, security, reliability, and scalability
- Support modern CI/CD and automated deployment practices
- Participate in Agile development activities, technical design discussions, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving
- Champion secure engineering practices and contribute to continuous improvement across the engineering organization
Skills
- Candidates must be eligible to work directly on Alphanumeric's W2 without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; Master's or PhD welcomed
- • Approximately 8-10+ years of relevant software/cloud engineering experience or equivalent experience
- • Strong hands-on software engineering experience is required
- • Experience developing production applications, backend services, APIs, microservices, or other cloud-native software solutions
- • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform:
- + Microsoft Azure
- + Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- • Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
- • Experience working within an Agile software development environment
- • Ability to independently architect and build solutions from loosely defined business or technical requirements
- • Strong communication and collaboration skills
- • Hands-on Rust programming experience
- • Experience with Python, Go, or other modern software development languages
- • Kubernetes and containerization experience
- • Cloud infrastructure engineering experience
- • Experience developing cloud-native applications and microservices
- • Pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience
- Location: Fully Remote - Eastern Time Zone preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement (Eastern Time Zone preferred)
- Collaborative engineering environment
- Opportunity to support innovative work within a leading global pharmaceutical organization
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