Senior Cloud Development Engineer

Pegasystems is a leader in cloud technology, and they are seeking a Senior Cloud Development Engineer to join their collaborative Cloud Engineering team. This role involves designing, building, and operating cloud-native services to support enterprise-scale applications, focusing on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native services (microservices, APIs, automation) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Write high-quality, production-grade code with strong emphasis on testing, observability, and deployment best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across distributed systems and cloud environments, taking ownership of problems through resolution
• Contribute to the development and evolution of core cloud platform capabilities across AWS and GCP
• Build and enhance systems for service provisioning, configuration, observability, and integrations
• Develop automation and tooling to simplify infrastructure provisioning and onboarding workflows
• Reduce operational overhead by increasing self-service capabilities and standardizing processes
• Improve developer and operator experience by minimizing manual effort and streamlining workflows
• Partner with stakeholders to enhance tooling, validation, and documentation, making it easier to build and operate within the platform
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to deliver high-impact scalable solutions

Requirements:

• 5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong programming skills in Golang, Java, or another object-oriented language
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP)
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments (Docker)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Proven ability to debug and operate distributed systems using logs, metrics, and tracing
• Experience building or operating cloud infrastructure or platform services
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring ecosystems
• Experience improving automation and developer workflows in cloud environments
• Exposure to multi-region, high-availability system design patterns
• Cloud or Kubernetes certifications (AWS, GCP, CKAD, etc.)