Senior Software Engineer II

Job Duties

• Contribute to and implement cloud infrastructure primarily in AWS, with additional support for GCP, including networking, IAM, encryption and key management, observability, and cloud-native managed services and serverless compute.
• Implement organization guardrails and policies, including org policies and SCPs, account or project provisioning standards, tagging standards, and baseline constraints.
• Develop IaC platform features that enforce approved configurations through standardized Terraform modules, CI/CD workflows, automated testing and validation, and policy enforcement.
• Contribute to technical proposals and architecture decisions for platform initiatives, balancing security, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• Design and implement cloud solutions that span multiple systems, including secure patterns for cloud managed services and their dependencies.
• Participate in design reviews and high-risk change reviews, keeping implementations aligned with approved patterns.
• Triage incidents and platform issues in Cloud Infrastructure-owned systems and implement durable fixes that prevent repeat failures.
• Support audit readiness for Cloud Infrastructure-owned systems, including gathering evidence, maintaining control inventory, and participating in SOC 2 and PCI activities.
• Support peers through code and design reviews, contributing to quality and shared standards across the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, and/or software engineering roles, or equivalent scope and impact.
• Deep experience designing and operating cloud foundations in AWS, with working knowledge of GCP, across several of: networking, IAM, identity federation, encryption and key management, certificate management, secrets management, governance guardrails and policies, observability, DNS, and OU/folder and account/project provisioning.
• Advanced Terraform expertise, including authoring reusable modules, and enforcing standards through automated testing and policy checks.
• Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery with safe change controls.
• Ability to participate in system architecture discussions and technical design reviews, with a solid understanding of security, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar), including building internal tooling, automating operational workflows, and integrating with cloud APIs.
• Experience supporting or executing cloud migrations, including migrating production workloads from on-premises environments to AWS.
• Exceptional incident triage and debugging skills for complex, distributed cloud infrastructure problems, including diagnosing issues in high-pressure production environments.
• Collaborative working style with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience operating in regulated environments, including audit-ready defaults and control implementation.

Advanced Requirements

• Professional AWS certifications, or equivalent demonstrated depth (GCP certifications also valued).
• Direct SOC 2 or PCI audit experience, including evidence production and remediation execution.
• Deep AWS expertise, with hands-on experience migrating production workloads from on-premises data centers to AWS.

Compensation

• The expected earnings for this role could be comprised of a base salary and other forms of cash compensation, such as bonus or commissions as applicable.
• This pay range is just one component of MX’s total rewards package. MX takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location, skillset, peer compensation.
• **Please note applicants applying for this position must have the legal right to work in India without the need for sponsorship. We are unable to provide work sponsorship for this role, and candidates should be able to verify their eligibility to work in the country independently. Proof of eligibility to work in India will be required as part of the hiring process.

Work Environment