Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer (Hybrid 1-day in office/week)

Location: Raven Volt Office, 2715 Ronald Regan Blvd, Suite 100 | Cumming, GA 30041

Bonus: Up to 10% based on company profit

Vacation: Flex

Reporting To: Sr. Director of Software Development

Hours of Work: Full Time

Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience

Raven Volt is looking for a full-time Staff Software Engineer with strong AWS cloud expertise to help design and build the backend services and infrastructure that power Raven Volt’s remote monitoring and virtual power plant solution. This role will contribute across the full software development lifecycle—requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support—and will partner closely with engineers, product, and other stakeholders.

As a Staff Engineer, you will also provide technical leadership: driving architecture decisions, raising engineering standards, mentoring teammates, and helping teams deliver secure, scalable, and reliable systems—especially for IoT-driven workloads and cloud-native services on AWS.

• Own technical architecture for key components (scalability, reliability, observability, cost awareness)
• Build and optimize IoT data ingestion pipelines and event-driven services using AWS-native patterns
• Establish and enforce cloud security best practices (least privilege, secrets management, encryption, auditing)
• Improve developer productivity through standards, reusable patterns, reviews, and mentorship
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver features end-to-end, from concept through production support
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root-cause analysis and long-term corrective actions

• Ability to communicate ideas effectively to other software engineers
• Able to work proactively and take ownership of outcomes
• Able to work solo or on a team as project requires
• Able to troubleshoot issues and drive problems to resolution

• Strong hands-on experience building cloud-native systems on AWS
• Experience with AWS IoT Core (device connectivity, messaging patterns, rules engine, integration to downstream services)
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience using AWS Cloud Formation (templates, stacks, change sets, repeatable environments)
• Strong AWS networking knowledge (VPC design, subnets, routing, security groups/NACLs, private connectivity patterns)
• Knowledge of Security Best Practices in AWS, including:
  • IAM least privilege & role-based access
  • Encryption at rest/in transit (e.g., KMS usage patterns)
  • Logging/auditing (e.g., Cloud Trail/centralized logs)
  • Secure networking patterns and environment isolation

• 5–7 years building production backend systems (services, APIs, distributed systems)
• Proficiency with one or more of:
  • Python
  • Java
  • .NET (C#)
• Experience building reliable integrations and data pipelines (event-driven patterns preferred)

• Strong experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization, migrations, performance tuning)
• Strong SQL fundamentals

• Frontend and/or full-stack familiarity:
  React and Node.js
• CI/CD experience (any of the following or similar):
  • AWS Code Pipeline / Code Build / Code Deploy
  • Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, etc.
  • Automated testing and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags)
• Container and orchestration experience (ECS/EKS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Observability experience (metrics, logs, tracing; alerting and dashboards)
• AWS Certifications (nice-to-have):
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional)
  • AWS Certified Developer
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty

• You deliver well-structured services that are secure, observable, and stable in production
• You raise the technical bar through mentorship, reviews, and pragmatic architectural leadership
• You reduce operational burden by improving automation, CI/CD, and reliability practices
• You help the team move faster while improving quality and security