Motion Recruitment | Jobspring | Workbridge

Staff Platform Engineer/ AWS/ Python

Holmdel , New Jersey

Onsite

Full Time

$200k - $270k

This company is redefining the live fan experience. They’re mission is to transform the live event experience through technology. From navigating large venues more intuitively to enabling real-time interaction with the event. Their platform is designed to make attending games and shows more seamless, connected, and engaging.

They’re looking for a hands-on Principal AWS Platform Engineer to join the founding team. You’ll be the senior technical leader responsible for scaling and optimizing our serverless AWS infrastructure. This is a critical role with impact across architecture, deployment, and live platform performance. They experiment constantly and believe innovation happens best in person, so this is an on-site role in Holmdel, NJ.

Required Skills & Experience
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including recent hands-on leadership
  • Deep expertise in AWS architecture (especially Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB)
  • Strong Python development skills (this is a daily coding role)
  • Experience working at scale (bonus if from trading, real-time systems, or similarly high-load environments)
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally with CloudFormation
  • Startup mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, ownership, and rapid change
What You Will Be Doing
  • Lead the design, development, and evolution of AWS-based serverless platform
  • Write and review high-quality Python code daily
  • Build and maintain infrastructure using AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS, DynamoDB, Fargate, and API Gateway
  • Drive performance and scalability improvements to handle high-traffic, event-driven workloads
  • Collaborate across product and engineering teams to bring new features to life
  • Help shape platform security, observability, and operational excellence from the ground up

The Offer
You will receive the following benefits:
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401K Retirement Savings Plan
  • Free Snacks and Drinks, and Catered Lunch
  • Free Gym Membership

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Posted by: Alyssa Valles

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