2 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead projects that solve challenging distributed-systems problems at global scale.
- Design, build, deploy, scale, and operate software systems that automate Amazon's networks.
- Own the design, implementation, quality, and operational performance of delivered services.
- Develop cloud-computing systems, tools, and processes that collect and rationalize data from multiple sources.
- Lead an agile team, drive projects and milestones to completion, and mentor engineers.
- Collaborate with Network Engineering teams and stakeholders to improve security, availability, service delivery, and software rollouts.
- Gather customer requirements and influence the design, development, deployment, and support of new capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or CSSLP certification.
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years of experience 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: at least 5 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: experience leading and influencing a team or organization and working with distributed systems at scale.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent and a current, active US Government TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
Benefits
- The selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate security clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
- Benefits include health, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The role offers work-life flexibility, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- The position is based in Herndon, Virginia.
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.