# Senior Software Engineer - Government Cloud

**Company:** [Tines](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tines)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, TypeScript, Aws Govcloud, Security Controls, Audit Logging, Access Control, Encryption, Compliance, Observability, Feature Flags
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Senior engineer building and hardening Tines features for AWS GovCloud and federal compliance environments. Focus on security controls, auditability, and abstractions enabling cross-environment development.

## Job Description

## What you will be doing

- Design, build, and harden product features within a compliance-regulated cloud environment — writing code with a strong focus on security controls, data privacy, and auditability.
- Build features specific to AWS GovCloud users: authentication methods required by federal agencies, audit and compliance capabilities, and tooling that makes it easier for customers to operate and audit their own Tines tenants.
- Build abstractions that reduce friction for engineers across Tines to author and test features in a government cloud environment without needing direct access to it — environment-aware configuration, feature flags, and automated compliance boundary testing.
- Enable software engineers to build new product features that work seamlessly across commercial and government cloud environments: observability, logging, and simplifying deployments.
- Analyze our application for security gaps, identifying where existing functionality needs to be adapted, constrained, or hardened to meet government standards — and implement those changes yourself.
- Work cross-functionally across product teams to align timelines and develop hands-on solutions that meet security controls, translating between compliance requirements and engineering reality.
- Use your knowledge and experience to mentor other engineers on secure design patterns and building confidently for regulated environments.
- Support our self-hosted federal customers operating in our CMMC environment, including handling escalations and complex, long-running support cases as part of the team's on-call responsibilities.

## Projects you might work on

- Building smart card authentication support so federal users can log in with their government-issued credentials alongside existing SSO integrations.
- Making it easier for customers to operate and audit their own Tines tenants — richer audit logging, records retention controls, and exportable compliance evidence.
- Building developer tooling and abstractions so engineers across Tines can author features that work in GovCloud without needing to understand every compliance constraint — automated testing that catches compliance boundary violations before they reach production.
- Implementing security impact analysis and change control workflows directly into our development process, so compliance validation is part of shipping code rather than a separate step.
- Ensuring our GovCloud SaaS and self-hosted customers can easily monitor, manage, and scale their dependencies like OpenSearch — building the in-product features and tooling that give customers visibility and control over their own infrastructure.
- Collaborating closely with our Product and Design teams to determine which product capabilities need to be adapted or constrained for government environments — and finding the simplest path to get there.
- Using our own product to automate compliance workflows — vulnerability tracking, change control documentation, and incident response runbooks powered by Tines.
- Writing a blog post to share something interesting we learned about building for the government with the community.

## Is this the right role for you?

- Roughly 7+ years as a professional software engineer. Proven track record of success as a senior software engineer.
- Direct experience of building and delivering software using a high-level programming language.
- Experience building software that operates in compliance-regulated or security-sensitive environments is a strong plus (FedRAMP, FISMA, SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar).
- Comfortable reasoning about security at the application layer: encryption, access control, audit logging, or data retention.
- Main languages are Ruby and TypeScript, but prior experience not required.
- Broad role across the stack; willingness to pitch in anywhere needed.
- Customer obsessed and willing to go deep into unfamiliar stacks to find root causes for errors, performance issues, and bugs.

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