Tech Lead - Go + Python

About the role

THOUGHT BYTE is looking for a highly skilled Technical Lead Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud-native architecture and event-driven data platform engineering. The role leads the design and delivery of an AWS modernization program, migrating a legacy event pipeline to an architecture built on Amazon DynamoDB Streams, Amazon MSK (Kafka), and Amazon EKS. The role owns technical delivery from architecture and pipeline design through integration testing, CI/CD setup, and documentation handoff.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end technical design and hands-on delivery of event-driven data pipelines on AWS; define service boundaries, integration patterns, and the technical approach with the engineering team.
• Build and configure Amazon DynamoDB Streams producers and AWS Lambda connector functions; implement Amazon MSK (Kafka) entity linkages and own topic schema validation.
• Build and lead S3 and Lambda-orchestrated backfill pipelines; define per-stage validation criteria and rollback strategies.
• Own end-to-end integration testing to validate data fidelity across distributed pipeline components, define acceptance criteria, and sign off on fidelity targets.
• Lead migration of services from AWS Lambda to Amazon EKS; build and maintain Circle CI and Argo CD CI/CD pipelines for containerized deployments.
• Contribute to and review engineering deliverables; define Definition of Done criteria per phase; champion code quality, test coverage, and security standards.
• Produce deployment runbooks, pipeline documentation, architecture diagrams, and AWS Well-Architected documentation handoff.

Datos clave

• The role is a long-term contract.
• The source lists the location as Mexico (Remote).
• The role leads AWS modernization and event-driven data platform engineering.