Sr. Software Engineer

Pacific Life Insurance Company is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer for its Annuity Platform Transformation team in Newport Beach, CA (onsite). The role focuses on building and operating AWS-based capabilities that enable replicated policy administration data to flow through services, APIs, and batch processes.

Role Summary

As a Senior member of the team, you will develop ingestion, transformation, and orchestration capabilities for operational data replicated into AWS. This includes services and data pipelines that make contract, fund, rider, and valuation data available for downstream applications and operational processing.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines for data replicated into AWS.
• Develop 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 to support batch processing and application integration.
• Implement event-driven processing with retries, duplicate handling, and recovery controls.
• Contribute to component design by explaining implementation tradeoffs and integrating solutions with existing platforms using agreed architecture patterns.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code for assigned AWS components.
• Implement automated testing, access controls, logging, monitoring, and alerts in alignment 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 appropriate 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 address dependencies, raise risks, and improve engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a 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 and practical experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience building APIs, data pipelines, and integrations that support application or operational processing.
• Hands-on experience with relevant AWS services such as S3, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge or SQS, and RDS or Aurora, with the ability to select appropriate services for specific use cases.
• 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 with technical and business teams.

Technologies

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

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.

Compensation

Base pay range: USD 124,830.00 - 152,570.00 per year.

Benefits

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