2 days ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and operate scalable control plane, distribution, and data plane services for AWS Outposts.
- Own services end to end, from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and long-term operational health.
- Solve ambiguous distributed-systems and networking problems and make technical tradeoffs with limited guidance.
- Build and improve AI agents and automation that reduce repetitive software-development and operational work.
- Improve observability, deployment pipelines, time-to-detect, and time-to-mitigate for owned systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead production investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Write maintainable, well-tested code and participate in design and code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical direction and engineering standards.
- Collaborate with partner service, networking, and hardware/edge teams, including S3, EBS, and Route 53.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 1 year designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- At least 1 year of object-oriented design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, and Medical Advice Line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The position is based in Herndon, Virginia, USA, with a stated annual base salary range of $143,700.00 to $194,400.00; the package may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
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.