Staff Software Engineer – .Net / AWS
Location : Fully remote (based in Brazil)
Work Flexibility : Opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for certain periods
Salary : $7,000-$9,000 per month
Role Overview
We are looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer who brings advanced technical acumen and an ability to take broad ownership. This is a predominantly development-focused role (approx. 90 % coding, 10 % DevOps) suited to someone who wants to be accountable for both crafting software and maintaining its operational integrity.
In this position you will help drive the evolution of a large-scale identity and access management platform, modernize legacy components, solve deep technical challenges, and provide mentorship to other engineers. If you relish complex systems and enjoy making code resilient, maintainable and efficient, this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities
Investigate and resolve non-trivial system problems that traverse multiple services, systems or environments.
Quickly acquaint yourself with unfamiliar large codebases, often with little prior documentation.
Guide and coach other engineers in software architecture, debugging methodologies and technical design.
Collaborate with DevOps and QA functions to trace issues across deployment pipelines, APIs and operational environments.
Refactor and enhance existing modules to increase performance, reliability and maintainability.
Create and maintain documentation of key technical findings, and build diagnostic and troubleshooting frameworks that can be reused.
Required Skills & Background
Minimum of 8 years’ experience in professional software engineering, delivering production-grade systems.
Expert proficiency in C# and .NET (Framework 4.8 and / or .NET 10+) , with an emphasis on clean, secure, scalable code.
Strong experience with SQL and relational database systems (e.g., MSSQL, MySQL), along with exposure to ElasticSearch and Redis .
Demonstrated ability to design, build and optimise distributed, high-volume data flows and integration patterns.
Solid familiarity with IIS , Docker , Kubernetes (EKS) , and containerization on both Windows and Linux platforms.
Hands-on experience with AWS (including but not limited to EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
Practical experience working with CI / CD and automation tools such as GitHub Actions , TeamCity , Terraform .
Awareness of monitoring and security tools such as Prometheus , Grafana , GuardDuty , AWS Inspector , New Relic .
Strong experience aross leadership, mentoring & documentation.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and ability to thrive in a fast-moving, cross-functional engineering environment.
What We Offer
Fully remote working arrangement from Brazil.
Flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for certain periods each year.
Flexible working hours aligned to outcomes rather than fixed location or schedule.
Supportive engineering culture.
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