Cloud Development Engineer

Position: Staff Cloud Development Engineer-1
** Join the Team Modernizing Medicine
**** A Culture of Excellence
** When you join Mod Med, 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.
** 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 Mod Med’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.
** What you'll do
*** 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  + Database:
Architect, build and operate high-throughput event-driven systems using technologies like AWS Aurora, RDS, and No

SQL, working with development teams to enforce best practices and with cloud engineering to ensure those practices are engineered into our platform; lead complex migrations, sharding strategies, and performance tuning.  + 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 Data Dog, 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.
** What you'll bring
*** 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, Route
53) 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…