Senior Cloud Development Engineer

Meet Our Team:

You’ll join a highly collaborative Cloud Engineering team focused on building and operating scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform services that power Pega Cloud. Our work sits at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and platform enablement; enabling teams across Pega to build and operate mission-critical SaaS solutions at scale.

This is a hybrid role, based out of our Waltham, MA office (minimum 3 days in office)

Picture Yourself at Pega:

As a Senior Cloud Development Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and operating cloud-native services that support enterprise-scale applications. You’ll work across the full stack, from infrastructure and platform services to application-level engineering, helping drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and developer experience.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful components of the platform, delivering solutions that directly impact enterprise customers. Over time, you’ll contribute to improving system performance, reducing operational overhead, and shaping engineering best practices across the team.

What You'll Do at Pega:

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native services (microservices, APIs, automation) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Write high-quality, production-grade code with strong emphasis on testing, observability, and deployment best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across distributed systems and cloud environments, taking ownership of problems through resolution

• Contribute to the development and evolution of core cloud platform capabilities across AWS and GCP
• Build and enhance systems for service provisioning, configuration, observability, and integrations

• Develop automation and tooling to simplify infrastructure provisioning and onboarding workflows
• Reduce operational overhead by increasing self-service capabilities and standardizing processes
• Improve developer and operator experience by minimizing manual effort and streamlining workflows
• Partner with stakeholders to enhance tooling, validation, and documentation, making it easier to build and operate within the platform
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to deliver high-impact scalable solutions

Who You Are:

• A strong engineer who enjoys solving complex problems across multiple layers of the stack
• Comfortable context-switching between development, cloud infrastructure, and production systems
• Thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and bring a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Naturally curious and forward-thinking, with an interest in using AI-assisted tools to

What You've Accomplished:

Required Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong programming skills in Golang, Java, or another object-oriented language
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP)
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments (Docker)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Proven ability to debug and operate distributed systems using logs, metrics, and tracing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating cloud infrastructure or platform services
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring ecosystems
• Experience improving automation and developer workflows in cloud environments
• Exposure to multi-region, high-availability system design patterns
• Cloud or Kubernetes certifications (AWS, GCP, CKAD, etc.)

Pega Offers You:

• Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
• Continuous learning and development opportunities
• An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
• Competitive global benefits program inclusive ofpay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company #LI-KH2

Additional Information

Base salary range for this role is 108,300 - 162,200 USD annually. This role may also be eligible for annual bonus OR commission, as well as benefits and other incentives.

The final compensation will be determined during the offer process based on the candidate's education, experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as market conditions and may vary from the posted range. We will share an information on benefits, bonus/commission, and other pay components for this role at the relevant recruitment stage.