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 and the underlying network infrastructure that supports enterprise-scale applications. You’ll work across the full stack, from networking and infrastructure, to platform services and application-level engineering, helping to drive improvemnets 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, including virtual networks, service mesh, and traffic management layers, delivering solutions that directly impact enterprise customers. Over time, you’ll contribute to improving system performance, reducing operational overhead, and shaping engineering  and networking 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
• Configure and manage virtual networks, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS services across cloud environments to support secure, high-performance platform operations
• Implement and operate service mesh technologies, (i.e., Istio or equivalent), to manage traffic, security, and observability across distributed services

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

• Develop automation and tooling to simplify infrastructure and network provisioning, onboarding, and operational workflows
• Reduce operational overhead by increasing self-service capabilities and standardizing networking and platform 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
• Set-up and manage Istio IngressGateways integrated with cloud providers, (AWS ALB/NLB) to securely handle external traffic entering the cluster

Who You Are:

• A strong engineer who enjoys solving complex problems across multiple layers of the stack, including networking, infrastructure, and application code
• Comfortable context-switching between development, cloud infrastructure, networking, 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 accelerate platform engineering

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
• Hands-on experience configuring and managing virtual networks, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS services in cloud environments
• Solid understanding of core networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, VLANs, routing, and switching
• Experience with Istio or another service mesh technology
• Proven ability to debug and operate distributed systems using logs, metrics, and tracing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating cloud infrastructure, networking, or platform services at scale
• Familiarity with SD-WAN technologies and modern enterprise networking architectures
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring ecosystems
• Experience improving automation and developer workflows in cloud and network environments
• Exposure to multi-region, high-availability , and hybrid networking system design patterns
• Cloud, networking or Kubernetes certifications (AWS, GCP, CKAD, CCNA 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 102,400 - 153,200 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.