3 months ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop high-availability distributed software emphasizing security, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Build and integrate custom APIs and middleware for security system integration.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code deployment, configuration management, and operational automation frameworks.
- Build monitoring and alerting systems to track service health and security.
- Implement secure communication and authentication between distributed systems.
- Write maintainable code, conduct peer code reviews, and contribute to technical design and security architecture reviews.
- Own integrations with enterprise and commodity hardware through proprietary and open-source protocols.
- Partner with internal customers to understand operational challenges and deliver solutions.
- Own the development, operations, and overall health and security of supported services in a classified environment.
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.
- Bachelor’s degree or CSSLP certification.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Current, active US government Top Secret or higher security clearance.
- US citizenship and the ability to maintain the required clearance.
- Preferred: experience with automation or monitoring frameworks and deployment or development.
- 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: experience with infrastructure as code, operations automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements supporting work-life harmony.
- Ongoing learning, knowledge-sharing, training, and career-growth resources.
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance and mental health support programs, medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the overall Amazon package.
- Work is based in Herndon, Virginia, and involves a classified environment.
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.