3 days ago
Base Salary
$151k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of services, automation, and deployment pipelines for AWS Lambda and container services in isolated cloud environments.
- Own multi-quarter technical projects from problem definition and design through partner alignment, execution, and delivery.
- Set technical direction, architecture, design standards, and operational readiness expectations for team systems and tooling.
- Partner with commercial service teams to adapt architectures and ensure new features work in Amazon Dedicated Cloud partitions.
- Eliminate recurring operational problems through self-service tools, automated remediation, and scalable infrastructure.
- Lead investigations into complex failures involving service dependencies, networking, and regional configuration, and drive permanent fixes.
- Use operational and deployment data to prioritize customer-impacting improvements.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and project guidance, and participate in hiring.
- Provide on-call support across the Serverless and Container technology stacks when necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or CSSLP certification.
- At least 4 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 3 years of programming experience with a modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby.
- At least 4 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline build processes.
- Current, active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility or above, with the ability to maintain required clearances.
- Preferred experience with distributed systems at scale and leading complex software or computing infrastructure delivered to customers.
- Preferred experience with Python, Java, Bash, or Perl development, programming, or scripting.
- Preferred experience designing and building applications with AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or the containers ecosystem.
- Preferred experience operating services in air-gapped or compliance-constrained environments.
- Preferred experience mentoring engineers through design and code reviews.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance and related medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance, and mental health support.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall Amazon package.
- The role is based in Seattle, Washington, and requires on-call support when necessary.
- The position requires maintaining an active TS/SCI clearance and obtaining additional agency-specific clearance with polygraph or equivalent after starting, as applicable.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.