Sr. Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer role on Pacific Life’s Annuity Platform Transformation team, building AWS-based operational data, integration, and orchestration capabilities.

• Location: Newport Beach, CA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 124,830 - 152,570 per year
• Experience: 5+ years

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines for data replicated into AWS
• Create reusable datasets and access patterns for contract, fund, rider, and valuation data used by operational services
• Implement data validation, reconciliation, and exception handling
• Support CDC integration and troubleshoot data issues with source-system and replication teams
• Develop Python services, APIs, and workflow orchestration for batch processing and application integration
• Implement event-driven processing with retries, duplicate handling, and recovery controls
• Contribute to component design and explain implementation tradeoffs
• Integrate solutions with existing platforms using agreed architecture patterns
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code for assigned AWS components
• Implement automated tests, access controls, logging, monitoring, and alerts aligned with engineering and security standards
• Troubleshoot performance and production issues
• Maintain deployment procedures, operational documentation, and support runbooks
• Translate requirements into technical tasks, provide estimates, and deliver assigned features with quality and documentation
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Provide practical guidance to less-experienced engineers
• Work with the Lead Software Engineer, QA, and delivery partners to resolve dependencies, raise risks, and improve engineering practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering and supporting production applications or services
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience building and deploying production solutions
• Strong Python development skills, plus practical experience with SQL and relational databases
• Experience building APIs, data pipelines, and integrations for application or operational processing
• Hands-on experience with relevant AWS services, including S3, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge or SQS, and RDS or Aurora
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automated testing
• Practical understanding of cloud security, monitoring, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting
• Ability to work independently on defined components, explain technical decisions, and collaborate across technical and business teams

Technologies

• AWS
• Python
• SQL
• Relational databases
• S3
• Lambda
• Step Functions
• EventBridge
• SQS
• RDS
• Aurora
• Git
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as code

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account
• Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave and an Adoption Assistance Program
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with change data capture, replication, incremental processing, or source-to-target reconciliation
• Exposure to mainframe data sources such as DB2 or VSAM and integration with legacy applications
• Experience with AWS Glue, streaming or container-based workloads, or tools for operational self-service
• Experience with Java or another backend language in addition to Python
• Experience in insurance, annuities, financial services, or another regulated environment