Software development company for Seattle teams, on Pacific time

Ryz Labs provides senior software development teams for Seattle companies, working remotely from Latin America on Pacific time business hours. Trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams, our engineers are the top 1% of the tens of thousands we interview, and they build in your repos and cloud accounts with real-time overlap for standups, design reviews and on-call. We don't have a Seattle office; we are the nearshore option for Puget Sound teams that want senior engineers on their own clock.

What we build for Seattle teams

Seattle is home to two of the largest cloud platforms and one of the largest online retailers, and its engineering culture reflects that: service ownership, written design docs and operational rigor. Around them sit e-commerce and marketplace companies, game studios on the Eastside, aerospace suppliers and global health and biotech research. These are the systems our teams most often build in those settings.

• Cloud-native platforms: event-driven services on AWS or Azure, serverless back ends, internal developer platforms and multi-account landing zones. See AWS development and Azure development.
• Cloud migrations and cost work: moving data-center workloads to the cloud, then right-sizing, tagging and cutting the bill that follows. See cloud migration.
• E-commerce and marketplaces: catalog and search, checkout, seller tools, fulfillment integrations and pricing services. See e-commerce.
• Game services: matchmaking, player accounts, telemetry and live-ops tools behind PC, console and mobile titles.
• Aerospace and manufacturing software: maintenance and inspection records, parts traceability and quality systems for suppliers. See manufacturing.
• Health and research data: data pipelines and analysis tools for clinical research and global health programs, built to handle sensitive data carefully.

Pacific hours, from Latin America

Latin America is one to five hours ahead of Seattle depending on the country and season. Mexico City and Costa Rica are two hours ahead in winter and one in summer; Bogotá and Lima are three and two; Buenos Aires and São Paulo are five and four. We match on working hours during scoping, so the team is online for your standup, your design review and your afternoon deploys. For teams that run a weekly on-call rotation, our engineers can carry shifts during your business day, and the person who gets paged is the person who knows the service.

The stack our teams work in

Seattle engineering orgs tend to be heavy on Java, Kotlin, C# and TypeScript, with Python for data and Go or Rust where performance matters. Our engineers work with DynamoDB, Aurora, Cosmos DB and Postgres; SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis and Kafka; Lambda, ECS, EKS and AKS; and infrastructure as code in Terraform, CDK or Bicep. Observability runs through CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog or OpenTelemetry, wired up before launch rather than after the first incident.

How an engagement works

1. Talk. A scoping call on Pacific time: the services involved, your cloud accounts and guardrails, operational expectations and how your team writes and reviews designs.
2. Match. We propose a team with names, seniority, working hours and a monthly price, and you meet the engineers.
3. Join. The team gets access to repos, pipelines and cloud accounts under your IAM policies, attends your standups and design reviews, and starts shipping.
4. Grow. Add engineers or disciplines such as SRE, data or QA, or hand the services to your in-house team with runbooks and dashboards.

The hard parts of cloud-scale software

At cloud scale, the expensive failures are operational, not syntactic. Senior engineers plan for them in the design doc.

• Retry storms. One slow dependency plus aggressive retries can take down a fleet. Our teams use timeouts, exponential backoff with jitter, circuit breakers and load shedding, and test them under failure injection.
• Hot partitions. A DynamoDB or Cosmos DB table keyed on the wrong attribute throttles under real traffic. Engineers model access patterns before choosing keys and load-test with production-shaped data.
• Cloud bills that surprise finance. Idle clusters, chatty cross-AZ traffic and unbounded log retention add up. Teams tag every resource, set budgets and alarms, and review cost as part of design.
• IAM sprawl. Broad roles granted to unblock a launch rarely get narrowed. Engineers write least-privilege policies in code and review them like any other change.
• Peak retail traffic. Holiday and promotional peaks punish anything that hasn't been load-tested. Teams pre-scale, run game days and keep a rollback path for every launch.
• Services nobody can operate. A service without runbooks, dashboards and clear ownership becomes a pager problem the day its authors move on. Teams write operational docs as they build and hand over with a shadowed on-call week.

Our engineers work remotely. If you want people on site for a kickoff, raise it during scoping; we don't promise in-person presence.

Team shapes and cost

Typical Ryz cost is $7,000–$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior: mid-level (comparable to Amazon L5) $7,000–$10,000, senior (comparable to Amazon L6) $10,000–$15,000, and leads $15,000+, quoted per team. Seattle hiring managers will recognize those levels.

• Service pair: 2 senior engineers taking ownership of one or two services. 2 × $10,000–$15,000 = $20,000–$30,000 per month.
• Platform team: a tech lead, 3 senior engineers, a DevOps engineer and an SRE. 5 × $10,000–$15,000 = $50,000–$75,000, plus the lead at $15,000+, so about $65,000–$90,000+ per month.
• Migration program: team size × duration × monthly rate. Five engineers at $7,000–$15,000 for eight months is 5 × 8 × $7,000–$15,000 = $280,000–$600,000.

You get a scoped plan, a price and the names of the people who would do the work before you start.

Dedicated team or staff augmentation?

A dedicated development team fits a migration or a new platform you want one team to own end to end. Staff augmentation fits when your managers already own the roadmap and need senior engineers on your team, working your on-call rotation and design-review process.

When Ryz isn't the right fit

If you need engineers in your South Lake Union or Bellevue office every day, hire locally. If you need 24/7 follow-the-sun coverage across European and Asian hours, global networks fit better. If you want a self-serve freelance marketplace or a proprietary platform you license, other providers fit better.

Related

• Software development for San Francisco teams
• DevOps consulting
• Hire Kubernetes engineers
• AWS vs Azure
• Nearshore software development

FAQ

Do you have an office in Seattle?

No. Our engineers work remotely from Latin America on Pacific time business hours, with real-time overlap for standups, design reviews and on-call.

How much does a software development team for a Seattle company cost?

Typical cost is $7,000–$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior, with leads at $15,000+ quoted per team. Three senior engineers are 3 × $10,000–$15,000 = $30,000–$45,000 per month. You get a plan, a price and names before you start.

Do your engineers work on AWS and Azure?

Yes. Our teams build and operate services on both, in your accounts and under your policies, with infrastructure as code and observability in place before launch.

Can your engineers join an on-call rotation?

Yes, during your business hours. We agree on on-call scope during scoping. If you need round-the-clock coverage across every time zone, we will say so and suggest how to split it.

What industries do you serve besides the ones listed?

We serve enterprises across industries. Cloud, e-commerce, games, aerospace and health are listed because they are common in Seattle, not because they are the only ones.

Questions we didn't answer? Email info@ryzlabs.com.