Sr. AWS Python Developer - New York, NY (Onsite)

Title: Sr. AWS Python Developer
Location: New York, NY, Onsite (5 days a week) 

Duration: Long-term

Required Skills: AWS, Python, and Media & Entertainment domain experience are required.

The Software Developer will work on our client''s team that''s developing their next-generation cloud-based content distribution pipeline in AWS, which is being used to distribute media files to partners worldwide. The role will be engaged end-to-end from understanding product goals and roadmaps through to solution design, architecture build, integration, deployment and support. They will be responsible for the full SDLC of a software product that provides transformation of media files and content distribution services to its clients through a well-defined single point of integration for leveraging the clients'' globally distributed media storage and transcoding capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain highly scalable high performance and highly available systems.
• Write well-tested, efficient and readable code.
• The code should also be strongly structured with a view to reusability
• Ensure that all deliverables follow best practices around source control CICD. Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Ensure that solutions are in line with the other deliverables of the team and produce documentation so that others learn from and contribute to the work.
• Attend and contribute to meetings, complete tasks as assigned by the supervisor.
• To be successful in this role, the right software developer will have.
• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience, with 5 years of writing production code in Python. 
• Familiarity with C is a plus. 53 years of production experience with AWS Certifications, a big plus. Proficiency in designing and interacting with NoSQL databases, DynamoDB. 
• Experience with relational databases, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, a plus. 
• Proficiency building serverless systems with ephemeral compute, e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS and orchestration, e.g., AWS Step Functions. 
• Proficiency in building event-driven architectures with message queues and topics. 
• Proficiency in identifying the applicability of design patterns and implementing them.
• Proficiency using AI-assisted coding tools and agents such as Cursor Claude Code or Co-Pilot
• Solid understanding of source control git, unit testing, test-driven development, CI/CD.
• Knowledge of defining packaging and deploying cloud resources in CDK is strongly preferred
• Knowledge of deploying and managing services in Kubernetes is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of building AI apps on platforms such as Bedrock Vertex AI/Azure AI, and familiarity with frameworks and tools such as Lang Chain vector databases, PyTorch, Tensor Flow, is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with the agile process, stand-up planning, estimating and demoing. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Experience with media file container formats, media/video engineering, a plus

Skills

Mandatory Skills: AWS API Gateway, AWS Cloud Architecture, Python