Software Engineer (Real-Time, Scalable Cloud Services Position Available In Palm Beach, Florida

Lamark Media (“Lamark”) is an integrated digital marketing firm driven by a simple philosophy: create extraordinary marketing campaigns that yield positive, measurable results for clients and strategic partners. Since our founding in 2009, we’ve built a full-service platform with an agnostic approach to digital media, performance, and creative strategy—designed to drive scalable, sustainable growth for ambitious brands. Our proprietary omni-channel strategy development approach combines best-in-class digital media, data-driven creative, advanced analytics, and conversion rate optimization (CRO) to craft custom marketing portfolios that evolve with the marketplace and customer behavior. We are seeking a Software Engineer with an interest in developing and optimizing real-time, high-frequency, high-throughput, low-latency cloud services. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high-scale distributed systems and is passionate about performance, reliability, and maintainability. You will be responsible for understanding system architecture, participating in complex development efforts, and ensuring that our cloud-based services operate at peak efficiency and reliability. You will be mentored by senior staff to assist in your development as a team member. This role requires an understanding of real-time systems architecture, distributed computing, and cloud operations best practices.

MUST HAVE

a valid Linkedin Profile Key Responsibilities + Develop Scalable Services – Implement highly efficient, real-time cloud services that scale to millions of requests per second with minimal latency. + Optimize System Performance – Continuously improve system performance, observability, and resilience using best-in-class monitoring, debugging, and optimization techniques. + Ensure High Availability & Reliability – Develop fault-tolerant, resilient, self-healing, auto-scaling, and highly available cloud services with an emphasis on horizontal scalability. + Optimize Cloud Infrastructure – Implement cloud-native architectures with Digital Ocean (preferred), while also considering AWS, GCP, or Azure environments. + Implement Best Practices for Distributed Systems – Utilize event-driven architectures, microservices, and caching strategies to maximize efficiency. + Enhance DevOps & Automation – Improve deployment pipelines, implement CI/CD best practices, and advocate for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools. + Security & Compliance – Ensure cloud security best practices are followed, including encryption, authentication, and compliance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

+ 1+ years of experience in software engineering, designing and maintaining real-time, low-latency, high-throughput cloud services. + Proficiency in Kotlin, Python, JavaScript / Typescript / React or comparable + Go or Rust experience is a strong plus + Familiarity with real-time systems architecture, including: + Event-driven and asynchronous processing models + Message queues & pub/sub architectures + Concurrency, parallelism, and thread safety + Efficient memory and CPU usage optimization + Cloud deployment supporting real-time systems, e.g. load-balancing, proxies, related. + Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Digital Ocean preferred, AWS/GCP/Azure also valued). + Proficiency in Linux system operations, networking, and performance tuning. + Strong understanding of database performance tuning (SQL and NoSQL). + Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). + Strong skills in debugging and profiling network applications.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

+ Experience in debugging and profiling distributed applications to resolve bottlenecks, race conditions, and scaling issues. + Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk). + Experience in designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. + Experience leveraging ML coding assistant tools, scrutinizing, and thoroughly testing ML generated code to ensure accuracy and completeness, while accelerating development cycles. + Experience with edge computing, CDN, and real-time data streaming. + Hands-on knowledge of in-memory data storage and distributed caching strategies (Redis, Memcached). + Deep understanding of performance tuning applications and cloud infrastructure. + Background in high-performance networking (WebSockets, gRPC, Protobuf, QUIC, etc.). + Experience with ML-powered performance optimization (optional but valued).

PERKS AND BENEFITS

+ Incredible company culture – we are passionate about the impact we make every day; we balance freedom with responsibility, and we aim for a consultative, transparent, and communicative approach in both our internal and client relationships + Diverse and forward-thinking environment + Great career growth opportunity—you’ll have direct access to agency leadership + Company-assisted medical insurance programs, life insurance, optional vision and dental insurance programs, and short-term and long-term disability offered + 401(k) with employer matching + Company events and industry conferences At Lamark Media, we’re looking for people with passion, grit, and high integrity. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job Lamark Media is an equal employment opportunity employer. Candidates are selected based on qualifications and defined requirements of the job, not on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other protected status. Further, Lamark Media encourages United States’ Veterans and persons with disabilities to apply for positions for which they are qualified. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Powered by JazzHR