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Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect EC2 control-plane services, fleet-health automation, and capacity tooling for air-gapped cloud environments.
- Design deployment pipelines and orchestration for disconnected regions, including deployment strategies, monitoring standards, and incident-response frameworks.
- Influence cross-team roadmaps and align teams on infrastructure goals, data-quality standards, and tooling strategy.
- Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and raise the organization’s technical bar.
- Evaluate generative AI tools and techniques for automation, code quality, and productivity.
- Operate the systems the team builds and make architecture and investment decisions for remediation and capacity workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or CSSLP certification.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience covering coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Must obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
Benefits
- Base salary is listed for Denver, Arlington, Herndon, and Seattle at $168,100.00–$227,400.00 annually, with sign-on payments and RSUs.
- Health, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life-plan options, EAP, mental-health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- AWS sponsors a commensurate government-agency security clearance upon start for the agencies supporting the employee’s AWS work.
- Work-life flexibility, mentorship, career-growth resources, inclusive culture programs, and employee-led affinity groups.
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.