Cloud Backend Engineer
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Job overview
MSys Inc. seeks a Senior AWS Data/Software Engineer for a long-term project with possible contract-to-hire. The role calls for cloud-native development across AWS services, data engineering, Java and Python, infrastructure as code, and distributed systems or microservices. The posting specifies an onsite role and requires five or more years of software engineering experience; AWS Solutions Architect certification and financial services experience are among the nice-to-haves.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
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Job Description Role Summary
Senior AWS Data/Software Engineer with strong cloud-native development experience. The ideal candidate should have a combination of AWS services, Data Engineering, Java/Python development, Infrastructure as Code, and distributed systems/microservices expertise.
Must-Have Skills (Priority Order) AWS Services
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AWS Glue
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Amazon S3
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AWS Lambda
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AWS Step Functions
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Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)
Programming
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Java
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Python
Database & Data Engineering
- Cassandra
ETL Development
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Apache Kafka
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Apache Spark
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
Application Development
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Spring Boot
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gRPC APIs
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Microservices Architecture
DevOps / Cloud Engineering
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CI/CD
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Containers
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Kubernetes
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Application Resiliency
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Security Best Practices
Experience
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5+ years software engineering experience
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System design and architecture
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Application development, testing, and operational support on AWS
Nice-to-Have Skills
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AWS Solutions Architect Certification
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning exposure
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Advanced cloud architecture experience
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Financial Services domain experience (if applicable to client)
How this job compares
Set against the 6,062 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New Jersey median$124–196K/yr122 salary ranges
- US median$70–80/hr227 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 143 open Data Engineer jobs in New Jersey and 6,062 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Deloitte27 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (5,288 postings).
- Education
- 2,772 of the 6,062 open Data Engineer jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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