Staff Cloud Development Engineer-1

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with staff / architect group to produce standardized, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure, guardrails and best practices for development teams to deploy safely and quickly to production, with an emphasis on developer self-service
• Lead technical strategy in the following areas:
• Streaming: Architect, build and operate high-throughput event-driven systems using technologies like Apache Kafka, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform
• AWS application development: Serve as the cloud lead for a subset of applications to guide their evolution towards efficient and standardized consumption of public cloud services , especially as it pertains to migration toward microservices running on Kubernetes.
• Implement and refine monitoring solutions using observability tools DataDog , ensuring proactive issue identification and efficient resource utilization.
• Lead the development of reusable IaC modules using tools like Terraform or Ansible to eliminate manual configuration.
• Ensure strict adherence to AWS security standards and data protection regulations (SOC2/HIPAA) while balancing cost implications.
• Mentor junior and senior team members, fostering a culture where every engineer is a technical leader in their area of expertise
• Engage in face-to-face architectural white-boarding and cross-functional planning from our Boca Raton headquarters.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 8 years in Cloud Engineering, SRE, software engineering, or a similar role, with a proven track record of solving complex problems in large-scale public cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Extensive experience managing AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53) or similar in another cloud platform
• Deep proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and other cloud-native technologies.
• Proficiency in a high-level language (Python, Java, Node, Go, or others) preferred
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at scale
• Demonstrated mastery in at least one specialized area (Distributed Streaming, Relational/Non-relational Databases, or application development in AWS).
• Able to participate in an occasional on-call rotation to address high-priority production issues.
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Benefits

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Join the Team Modernizing Medicine At ModMed , we're not just building software-we're reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care. A Culture of Excellence When you join ModMed, you're joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes: Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work 2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for "Technology Team of the Year" 2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started. Ready to modernize medicine with us? Job Description Summary: As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will spearhead efforts to ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of our AWS cloud infrastructure. This role is designed for high-level individual contributors who will lead one of three specialized domains: Data Streaming (Kafka) , Database Architecture , or AWS Applications Development . You will be pivotal in defining and implementing best practices for cloud architecture and service utilization across a broad portfolio of applications. Whether leading our event-driven evolution, safeguarding our data integrity, or refining our "golden path" for deployments, your technical leadership is needed to ensure ModMed's cloud foundation is secure and scalable. This position requires a consistent presence in our Boca Raton, FL office (3 days/week) to foster high-bandwidth collaboration and mentorship.

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