Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Engineer � Fully Remote

Alphanumeric • Collegeville, PA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Alphanumeric is hiring a Senior Software Engineer / Cloud Engineer (Functional Consultant - Level 3) to support our client of over 20 years, a global leader dedicated to improving lives through medical and pharmaceutical innovation. This is a fully remote position, with a preference for candidates in the Eastern Time Zone. The role involves building reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient applications, combining hands-on application development with strong knowledge of modern cloud platforms and Infrastructure as Code. As a senior technical contributor, you will translate business and technical requirements into well-defined technical solutions, architecting and building them through implementation. You will work in a collaborative environment that values curiosity, innovation, pairing, continuous improvement, and pragmatic engineering practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; Master's or PhD welcomed.
• Approximately 8-10+ years of relevant software/cloud engineering experience or equivalent experience.
• Strong hands-on software engineering experience is required.
• Experience developing production applications, backend services, APIs, microservices, or other cloud-native software solutions.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - strongly preferred, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience working within an Agile software development environment.
• Ability to independently architect and build solutions from loosely defined business or technical requirements.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Must be eligible to work directly on Alphanumeric's W2 without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on Rust programming experience.
• Experience with Python, Go, or other modern software development languages.
• Kubernetes and containerization experience.
• Cloud infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications and microservices.
• Pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native applications.
• Translate business and technical requirements into well-designed software solutions and technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain production-quality software within modern cloud environments.
• Design solutions across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS), with GCP strongly preferred.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Partner with product teams, software engineers, cloud engineers, and internal and external stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Apply software engineering best practices to system design, implementation, testing, security, reliability, and scalability.
• Support modern CI/CD and automated deployment practices.
• Participate in Agile development activities, technical design discussions, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Champion secure engineering practices and contribute to continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

Benefits

• Supporting innovative work within a leading global pharmaceutical organization.
• Collaborative engineering environment where technical quality, security, curiosity, and continuous improvement are highly valued.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior