Senior Engineer - IAM Engineering - AWS

Overview

Senior Engineer (Python / AWS) in the IAM Engineering organization at LPL's Global Capability Center in Hyderabad, building and supporting scalable cloud-native solutions that enable critical business platforms and enterprise integrations.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain Python-based REST APIs that support business-critical workflows.
• Build APIs using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, following API-first and REST best practices.
• Create Glue Job for data sync.
• Implement clean, testable, and well-documented Python code suitable for enterprise production environments.
• Optimize API performance, reliability, scalability, and error handling.
• Ensure proper API versioning, contract stability, and backward compatibility.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2, JWT, and IAM-based access.
• Enforce API security controls including request validation, throttling, rate limiting, and auditing.
• Partner with security teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise security and compliance standards.
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including reusable modules for API Gateway, Lambda, IAM roles and policies, and CloudWatch logging and monitoring.
• Ensure environment consistency across DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment of Python APIs.
• Support automated testing, packaging, versioning, and release management.
• Implement observability through logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing.
• Participate in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support activities.
• Collaborate closely with application teams, platform engineering, cloud, and security teams.
• Align API design and implementation with enterprise architectural standards.
• Actively contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical documentation.
• Influence API engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization.
• Contribute to architectural reviews and modernization efforts.

What you'll need

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in software engineering, cloud application engineering, API engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands-on experience with Python development, REST APIs, AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, S3), and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience developing, validating, supporting, or operating APIs and cloud-native applications in large-scale production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Working knowledge of SQL, data validation, data profiling, system integrations, and enterprise application support.
• Core competencies: API design mindset, builder mindset, systems thinking, collaboration, ownership and accountability.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Nice to have

• Master's degree.
• Strong understanding of application monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, resiliency, and operational support.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues, conducting root cause analysis, and supporting release and deployment activities.
• Experience collaborating across application, platform, cloud, security, middleware, and data engineering teams.
• Financial services, wealth management, or banking industry experience.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
• Experience with OAuth providers and identity platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS SAM or Serverless Framework.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures (EventBridge, SNS/SQS).
• Experience operating APIs in regulated or enterprise environments (financial services preferred).
• Knowledge of observability tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.
• Experience designing reusable API frameworks or shared libraries.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.