3 days ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop massively scalable and globally distributed security systems for AWS customers.
- Contribute to software architecture discussions and deep-dive troubleshooting of complex issues.
- Drive technical postmortem discussions to identify root causes.
- Create project roadmaps and estimates and invent new services layered on existing services.
- Use metrics, monitoring, and alarming to improve operational processes and team performance.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities.
- Support software development lifecycle activities including coding, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- 1+ year designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- 1+ year of object-oriented design experience.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $143,700-$194,400 annually, plus sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Work-life flexibility, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancement resources.
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.