Top AWS Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead and mentor engineering teams building full-stack, cloud-based solutions with distributed microservices and modern technologies. Define service boundaries and integration patterns, establish engineering standards, improve system performance, reduce technical debt, and guide technology strategy. Collaborate with product managers, architects, and Agile teams while developing scalable solutions using languages including Java, Python, and JavaScript and platforms such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Spark.

Designs, deploys, and maintains secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD. Supports applications and managed-service users, monitors environments, troubleshoots incidents, manages IAM, and improves reliability through automation, observability, backups, upgrades, and disaster recovery practices. The role also documents environments, supports audits, collaborates with engineering and security teams, and participates in on-call operations.

Principal Engineer serving as a hands-on technical leader across multiple teams. Responsibilities include defining software architecture, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, designing complex systems, mentoring engineers, leading cross-functional collaboration, presenting to stakeholders, and advancing engineering standards. The role requires extensive experience with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, microservices, CI/CD, testing, cloud platforms, and full-stack development, plus significant FinTech experience.

Design, deploy, secure, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD. Provide application and cloud support, monitor systems, troubleshoot incidents, manage IAM, perform maintenance and backups, improve observability and reliability, and guide cloud architecture and deployment decisions. Collaborate with engineering, security, data, and infrastructure teams while supporting audits, documentation, disaster recovery, and on-call operations.

Designs, deploys, and operates secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD. Provides application support, monitoring, incident response, automation, IAM administration, backups, upgrades, documentation, and audit support. Collaborates with development, security, data, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and optimize analytics platforms. Participates in on-call operations and guides stakeholders on cloud architecture, deployment strategies, and AWS best practices.

Designs, deploys, and maintains scalable, secure AWS infrastructure for customer projects, including migrations, landing zones, containerized applications, serverless systems, and infrastructure as code. Builds CI/CD automation, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery, and security controls; optimizes cost and performance; troubleshoots Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, and AWS environments; documents solutions; and communicates with clients and cross-functional teams throughout delivery engagements.

Designs, secures, operates, and scales AWS infrastructure and container platforms. Administers Linux, Windows Server, Nutanix, Rancher, ECS Anywhere, SMTP relays, and SSL/TLS certificates. Builds infrastructure as code and automation using CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, Bash, and AWS Systems Manager. Maintains monitoring, alerting, reliability, and compliance support for HITRUST and SOC 2. Participates in on-call support and works independently across cloud engineering, systems administration, and business priorities.

Leads and mentors a distributed Agile software team while remaining hands-on in architecture, Java and Spring Boot development, Angular applications, REST APIs, AWS infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, databases, observability, security, and production troubleshooting. Translates customer requirements into technical solutions, drives engineering best practices, supports capacity planning and performance feedback, and oversees scalable, resilient enterprise applications using AWS, Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu, and modern software development practices.

Automates, hardens, deploys, and upgrades Windows Server infrastructure in AWS GovCloud. Builds hardened AMIs, provisions EC2 instances, automates patching and compliance, manages phased upgrades and rollback, integrates infrastructure automation with CI/CD, and documents configurations and runbooks. Requires strong PowerShell, Windows administration, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and DevSecOps experience, plus eligibility for Public Trust clearance.

Designs, deploys, supports, and optimizes AWS cloud environments for customers. Leads migrations and modernization projects, troubleshoots technical issues, documents architectures, and advises customers throughout implementation and post-sales delivery. Collaborates with architecture, engineering, sales, and delivery teams while managing multiple customer engagements.

Technical individual-contributor leader designing and architecting cloud-native, microservices-based payment systems. Partners with product, mentors engineers, drives CI/CD, automated testing, and operational readiness while ensuring security, scalability, and cross-functional alignment within FinTech.

Lead the migration and maintenance of complex data flows into AWS cloud environments. Develop infrastructure as code and cloud service logic using Python, Ansible, CloudFormation or CDK, while supporting CI/CD pipelines, file transfer and messaging services, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and documentation. Coordinate integration requirements with stakeholders and maintain secure, compliant federal cloud solutions.

Own and scale the PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora database layer for a high-volume legal-services platform. Responsibilities include schema and migration review, query and index tuning, production issue diagnosis, lock and replication troubleshooting, database maintenance automation, backup and restore support, access control, and collaboration with infrastructure, software development, and data science teams. The role also supports reporting, billing, PII-sensitive data, and ERP-related data flows.

Owns day-to-day database operations and backup/recovery for a large multi-account AWS environment. Maintains RDS, Aurora, and self-managed databases, validates backup restoration, executes disaster-recovery runbooks, and collaborates with infrastructure, security, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud architecture teams. Supports escalations from a 24x7 monitoring team and helps advance managed services and Cloud Center of Excellence capabilities.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native backend applications using Node.js, React, and AWS services. Build secure, high-performing solutions supporting federal missions, troubleshoot complex issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to agile development. Responsibilities include working with serverless services, databases, CI/CD tools, and modern JavaScript technologies while delivering high-quality software.

Designs and develops enterprise and multitenant SaaS applications using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, REST APIs, databases, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, authentication, tenant provisioning, monitoring, security compliance, and performance improvements. The role collaborates with technical and business stakeholders and supports FedRAMP requirements.

Own and evolve enterprise AWS infrastructure, governance, security, identity, networking, and shared platforms. Build and operate full-stack services in TypeScript and Python, automate infrastructure and delivery, improve monitoring and reliability, manage incidents and on-call operations, and establish audit-ready controls. Partner across engineering and IT, improve production readiness, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, scalable, low-blast-radius systems.

Designs and implements enterprise AWS solutions for contact centers, primarily using Amazon Connect and Salesforce Service Cloud Voice. Responsibilities include developing integrations, configuring cloud services, advising on technical requirements, leading development teams, conducting code reviews, troubleshooting, documenting solutions, and training users. The role requires programming proficiency, AWS architecture knowledge, infrastructure automation, CI/CD experience, and the ability to lead technical delivery with minimal direction.

Designs, develops, and deploys scalable, resilient backend applications and APIs using TypeScript and AWS cloud services. Responsibilities include managing infrastructure with AWS CDK, working with DynamoDB and Lambda, collaborating with frontend and product teams, writing testable code, participating in code reviews, troubleshooting production issues, and applying AWS best practices.

Designs and develops APIs, system integrations, and AI-agent workflows for enterprise applications. Builds integrations with platforms such as Salesforce and REST APIs, deploys and supports solutions on AWS, and develops AI-powered automation using LLMs, tool calling, and multi-step workflows. The role includes client requirements gathering, troubleshooting, reliability optimization, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring junior developers.

Design, deploy, and maintain scalable AWS data and document-processing pipelines and production ML platforms. Build containerized workloads, automate infrastructure with Python and infrastructure-as-code, implement CI/CD, and manage security, networking, databases, monitoring, and observability. Operate GPU and CPU workloads, integrate generative AI and ML inference, resolve production incidents, optimize cost and performance, and collaborate with application, DevOps, data, infrastructure, and client teams.

Build and maintain full-stack web applications, APIs, backend services, integrations, and event-driven data pipelines. Collaborate on architecture, product requirements, code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and engineering standards. Contribute to scalable, secure, reliable software while mentoring engineers and supporting development-process improvements.

Leads Neo4j graph database migrations to AWS, including architecture, secure deployment, data integration, performance tuning, query optimization, testing, demonstrations, developer onboarding, UAT, and go-live support. The role requires hands-on expertise with Neo4j, Cypher, AWS infrastructure, ETL tools, graph modeling, benchmarking, and stakeholder communication.

Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs and scalable event-driven cloud solutions using TypeScript and AWS. Build infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, implement secure and highly available architectures, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, participate in technical planning and code reviews, document solutions, collaborate with teams and vendors, and mentor engineers on AWS best practices.

Develops, tests, documents, maintains, and enhances software solutions using established design principles and development practices. The role addresses defects, security vulnerabilities, and performance improvements; participates in requirements analysis, planning, and user story development; documents standards and changes; and collaborates with and mentors software engineers. Work involves .NET technologies, source control, software development lifecycle practices, and potentially Azure or AWS cloud development.