Job Title: IoT Platform Engineer

Location: Remote-Chennai

Duration: Fulltime

WalkIn-Drive:"F2F": Aug 8th and Aug 9th

Job Overview: SoftClouds LLC is looking for a Full-Time IoT Platform Engineer with at least 14+ years of experience for the position of IoT Platform Engineer for our engineering team working on our enterprise-grade IoT connectivity platform. This is a hands-on development position implementing solutions across our IoT data ingestion platform and

REST API services. Our platform processes telemetry data from construction and industrial equipment fleets, managing real-time data ingestion, processing, and analytics at scale. This is a production-grade system with sophisticated requirements around reliability, scalability, security, and real-time processing.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Technical Design & Development

Participate in the planning, architecture, and development of software solutions, integrating AI, machine learning, and data-driven features where applicable

Write high-quality code to develop and maintain scalable, high-performance systems, emphasizing security and long-term sustainability

Design and implement event-driven architectures using DynamoDB Streams, EventBridge, SQS, and Kinesis

Build serverless microservices with AWS Lambda and container-based services with ECS/Fargate

Develop RESTful APIs using API Gateway with proper authentication, rate limiting, and caching strategies

Optimize system performance across the entire stack including JVM tuning, connection pooling, and query optimization

Drive deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of systems including AI models and analytics components Collaboration

Conduct code reviews and establish coding standards across multiple repositories

Drive technical decision-making and evangelize best practices for cloud-native development

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, solution architects, data scientists, and external vendors

Coordinate cross-team initiatives and integrations, driving dependency resolution and risk mitigation

Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and PI Planning

Lead knowledge sharing around emerging technologies, AWS services, and IoT patterns

Project & Process Management

Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate solutions into broader systems and workflows

Monitor project progress, mitigate risks, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery

Handle incident response and production support coordination

Provide technical estimates and capacity planning

Troubleshooting & Optimization

Troubleshoot performance, scalability,



and security issues across distributed systems and data pipelines

Continuously optimize system architecture, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure costs

Implement best practices in monitoring, observability, and operational excellence (CloudWatch, X-Ray, structured logging)

Manage technical debt and drive system modernization efforts

Strategic & Architectural Guidance :

Contribute to the organization’s long-term technical vision, emphasizing scalable architecture and responsible adoption of emerging technologies

Architect solutions across multiple repositories and AWS services

Make key architectural decisions regarding hybrid serverless/container architectures

Ensure all code and infrastructure align with internal standards and security requirements

Stay informed of industry trends, research, and emerging innovations in IoT, edge computing, and cloud technologies

Required experience

14+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering scalable, reliable systems

6+ years of hands-on AWS experience building multi-service architectures

5+ years in technical leadership or lead developer roles

3+ years managing or mentoring engineering teams

2+ years working with IoT platforms, real-time data systems, or telemetry processing

Required skills

AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, AWS IoT Core, Dynamo DB, Open Search service, SQS/SNS, Glue,

Kinesis, RedShift, ECS / Fargate, Step functions, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, S3 Data Lakes,

Secrets Manager, X-Ray, CloudFormation/SAM, IAM, VPC, Network Load Balancer

Proficiency in Java 17+ (5+ years of hands-on experience)

Proficiency in Spring Boot 3.x.

Proficiency in AWS SDK for Java v2

Proficiency in Lombok

Proficiency in Lambda PowerTools

Strong knowledge of Python 3 for AWS Glue/PySpark ETL jobs and Python Shell Scripts

Proficiency in boto3 SDK for AWS service interactions

Proficiency in SQL

Proficiency in OpenSearch Query DSL

Proficiency in building RESTful APIs

Proficiency in API Gateway Patterns, Caching strategies, Rate Limiting & Quotas, OpenSearch Integration

Solid knowledge in OAuth2, JWT Tokens, API Keys, IAM-based auth





Proven experience with Docker, Maven, Make, AWS ECR, WSL2 and Git

Proven experience with Architecture Patterns like Event-Driven Architecture, Serverless Architecture, CQRS pattern, Stream processing, ETL pipelines, Microservices Architecture, Circuit Breaker Pattern, Retry Pattern,

Dead Letter Queue Pattern, Queue-Based Load Leveling, Multi-Tenancy Patterns

Strong Knowledge in IoT & Protocols like MQTT, UDP, Binary Protocol, Device Management, Telematics Domain

Proven experience with Unit Testing (Junit 5), Mocking, Integration testing, Load testing, Contract testing

Proven experience with Log4j2, X-Ray, Trace Analysis, Service Map, CloudWatch custom metrics, business KPIs,

Must be able to apply SDLC concepts and Agile Scrum methodologies.

Experience with multi-environment deployment strategies

Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Experience with CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Has a proven track record of delivering solid, robust applications.

Configure IDE and web application server for remote debugging.

Conceptual design of technical solutions providing a framework for detailed design.

Understanding of the unique business and technical requirements on each of our engagements to facilitate both communications and the most appropriate solution design.

Detailed design, development and unit / integration testing utilizing the appropriate methodologies,

technology, and tools.

Ability to produce client deliverables such as detailed design documentation, unit test plans and well documented code and ensure deliverables are of the highest quality to promote client satisfaction.

The candidate should also possess strong oral and written communication, problem-solving skills and should be a team player.

Knowledge of current technologies and application software development.

Enthusiasm, attention to detail, and ability to work on a variety of projects are necessary.

This position also requires excellent time management skills.

Preferred/Desired

Proficiency in Groovy for scripting and utilities

Proficiency in Binary Protocol parsing

Proven experience with Data Engineering and Analytics like Snowflake, Liquibase, Apache Spark/PySpark

Analytical and problem-solving skills are required.

Familiarity with security standards and best practices in application development.

Knowledge of encryption techniques.

Knowledge of Linux

Education

Requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering preferable Computer Science/Engineering.

📌 Senior Internet of Things Engineer (Chennai)
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