Senior Software Engineer AWS IoT

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Senior Software Engineer AWS IoT 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Connectivity Platform Development

• Design, develop and maintain scalable AWS-based IoT services and applications.
• Build secure and reliable backend services and APIs using Python.
• Develop cloud-native solutions supporting device onboarding, provisioning, registration, telemetry ingestion, alarm processing, software distribution, file transfer and remote service capabilities.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technology roadmaps for Bayer’s connectivity platform.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, maintainable, and compliant with organizational quality standards.
• Support the strategic transition from existing connectivity platforms such as ThingWorx toward cloud-native AWS IoT-based connectivity solutions.

Backend Engineering and API Development

• Design and develop backend services, APIs, and integration components using Python.
• Build services that support device communication, telemetry processing, alarm handling, file movement, remote service workflows, and platform integrations.
• Design REST APIs and service contracts for integration between cloud services, device software and enterprise applications.
• Contribute to microservices architecture, event-driven design and distributed application patterns.
• Ensure backend services are testable, observable, maintainable, and suitable for regulated product development environments.

Device Connectivity and Integration

• Collaborate closely with Device Software teams to integrate medical devices with cloud-based connectivity services.
• Define and implement secure communication mechanisms including MQTT, HTTPS, TLS, and certificate-based authentication.
• Support secure device onboarding, registration, identity management and lifecycle management.
• Drive integration testing across cloud services, device software, and enterprise applications.
• Assist in defining communication contracts, APIs, and integration patterns between connected devices and cloud services.
• Troubleshoot device-to-cloud connectivity issues across application, network, authentication and cloud service layers.

Cloud Engineering and AWS Platform Services

• Develop and maintain services leveraging AWS IoT Core and related AWS services.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Support cloud deployments across development, validation, and production environments.
• Configure and maintain cloud resources required for scalable, secure, and reliable IoT platform operations.
• Monitor platform performance, availability, scalability, and operational health.
• Optimize platform services for reliability, maintainability, security, and cost efficiency.

Troubleshooting and Operational Support

• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex platform and connectivity-related issues.
• Perform deep troubleshooting across cloud infrastructure, backend services, APIs, networking, authentication, connectivity workflows, and device communication layers.
• Conduct root cause investigations and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Support production environments and contribute to continuous operational improvement.
• Develop and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities.
• Support incident management, problem management, and operational readiness activities.
• Maintain strong ownership of issues from identification through resolution.

Agile Delivery and Release Management

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and Agile development ceremonies.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, architects and stakeholders to define and prioritize platform capabilities.
• Support release planning, deployment readiness, release coordination, and change management activities.
• Contribute to delivery planning across development, validation and production release cycles.
• Ensure delivery commitments are met while maintaining high quality, security, and compliance standards.
• Work with global teams to coordinate dependencies across cloud, device software, quality, cybersecurity, and operations.

Security, Quality and Compliance

• Apply cybersecurity best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Support operation and maintenance of solutions within regulated and GxP-compliant environments.
• Collaborate with Quality, Regulatory Affairs and Cybersecurity teams to support compliance, validation and audit-related activities.
• Support secure software development practices, vulnerability remediation, encryption, identity management, and certificate handling.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architecture documentation, operational procedures and engineering best practices.
• Ensure solutions are developed and maintained in alignment with healthcare technology, quality and cybersecurity expectations.

UI and Cross-Technology Collaboration

• Work effectively with teams responsible for user-facing applications and platform interfaces.
• Maintain a basic understanding of UI and front-end technologies such as Node.js and React.js.
• Contribute to technical discussions involving APIs, front-end integration, workflow behavior, and user-facing connectivity capabilities.
• Collaborate across backend, cloud, device software and UI layers to support end-to-end platform delivery.

Collaboration and Engineering Excellence

• Work within global cross-functional teams across R&D, Device Software, Service, Product, Quality, Regulatory, Cybersecurity and Operations.
• Communicate technical topics clearly to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and actively contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.
• Promote engineering discipline, maintainability, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to a high-performing engineering culture aligned with Bayer’s Dynamic Shared Ownership model.

WHO YOU ARE:

Education

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics Engineering, or related technical discipline.

Experience

• 5 to 7+ years of professional software engineering, cloud engineering, connectivity platform, or related technology experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience developing solutions on AWS.
• Strong experience building backend applications, services and APIs using Python.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS IoT Core and related AWS services.
• Experience working with REST APIs, microservices, and integration architectures.
• Experience with MQTT, HTTPS, TLS, certificate management, and secure communication protocols.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience operating and supporting production systems.
• Experience working within Agile product development environments.
• Experience supporting release planning, deployment of readiness, release coordination, and change management activities.
• Experience performing deep troubleshooting across cloud, application, networking, authentication and device communication layers.
• Experience in Medical Devices, MedTech, Healthcare, Software as a Medical Device, Life Sciences, or another regulated industry.
• Experience maintaining or supporting systems operating within GxP environments.
• Experience supporting connected products, connected medical devices, cloud-based connectivity platforms, or IoT platforms.
• Experience with remote service, remote monitoring, software distribution, file transfer, alarm processing, event management, or similar connected device workflows.
• Experience working with globally distributed product development or engineering teams.

Domain and Business Acumen

• Strong understanding of cloud-based connectivity platforms and connected product architectures.
• Understanding secure device onboarding, provisioning, registration, telemetry ingestion, alarm processing, software distribution, file transfer and remote service workflows.
• Ability to work across cloud services, backend services, device software integrations and operational environments.
• Good understanding of regulated software development environments, including quality, validation, documentation, change control, and operational compliance expectations.
• Basic understanding of UI concepts and technologies such as Node.js and React.js.
• Familiarity with healthcare technology, connected medical devices, digital health software, or medical device software development.
• Ability to understand end-to-end workflows spanning device software, cloud connectivity, backend services, APIs, operations and user-facing applications.

Technical Execution

• Strong hands-on engineering skills with the ability to design, build, troubleshoot and operate platform capabilities.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of technical deliverables.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Ability to balance delivery speed, quality, security, compliance, and operational reliability.
• Ability to support production issues with a structured troubleshooting mindset and strong ownership from identification through resolution.
• Ability to develop and maintain solutions suitable for regulated product development and GxP operational environments.

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