Cloud Development Engineer

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

At Mod Med, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty‑specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…