Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pacer Group is seeking a highly skilled Senior AI/Cloud Engineer for a long-term, fully remote engagement. The role involves designing resilient, event-driven architectures on AWS, optimizing for performance and cost, while also championing the use of advanced coding tools and AI-native capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Architect AI-Native Capabilities: Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI infrastructure on AWS using Bedrock, optimizing for high performance, rigid prompt guardrails, and cost-effective inference
- Design Bursty Event-Driven Services: Engineering serverless backend microservices that leverage advanced messaging patterns, asynchronous decoupled communication, and strict idempotency controls
- Drive Agentic Tooling Innovation: Shape daily engineering practices by integrating, establishing patterns for, and configuring agentic coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, MCP servers), establishing clear frameworks for when to deploy autonomous agents
- Collaborate & Review Architecture: Partner closely with internal engineering teams to lead deep-dive architectural reviews, visualizing system failure points and translating complex requirements into robust technical diagrams
- Deliver Reusable Patterns: Author and construct modular Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or Terraform infrastructure templates and architectural patterns designed for cross-team adoption and standardization
Skills
- Agentic Coding Tools Proficiency: Hands-on production experience using next-generation tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, or equivalent ecosystems; solid expertise in Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, context strategies, and agentic workflow design
- Advanced AWS Serverless Architecture: Deep production-grade engineering mastery over Lambda, DynamoDB (including single-table design, Global Secondary Index strategies, and DynamoDB Streams), and API Gateway
- Event-Driven Messaging & Orchestration: Proven success building scalable systems with SNS, SQS, EventBridge (leveraging fan-out patterns, Dead Letter Queues, and processing idempotency), and complex AWS Step Functions
- AWS Generative AI & Amazon Bedrock: Experience shipping production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Bedrock Agents, Knowledge Bases, and Guardrails; strong mastery of model routing, prompt caching, and inference cost optimization
- Distributed Systems Mastery: Expert understanding of eventual consistency, asynchronous retries/exponential backoff, choreography vs. orchestration patterns, and blast radius containment
- Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or Terraform
- Practical exposure to Amazon OpenSearch Service for vector database and hybrid search/retrieval implementations
- Comprehensive cloud observability experience utilizing Amazon CloudWatch, distributed tracing, and advanced dashboarding metrics
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
Company Overview
Pacer Group is workforce Solutions company with operations in 14 countries and providing workforce to over 150 of the fortune 500 companies. It was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://thepacer.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Pacer Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2025, 2 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.