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Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead projects that solve challenging distributed-systems problems at global scale.
- Develop software systems that automate Amazon’s network, including services for provisioning, event detection, and workflow testing.
- Design, implement, deploy, operate, and maintain high-availability services with low operational overhead.
- Build cloud-computing systems, collect and rationalize data from multiple sources, and use data to measure service success.
- Lead challenging projects and milestones, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Network Engineering on software rollouts and service optimization.
- Interact with customers, gather requirements, and influence the design, development, deployment, and support of new features.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or CSSLP certification.
- 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.
- Programming experience in at least one software programming language.
- Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent, at least 3 years of full software development lifecycle experience, software engineering best-practices knowledge, and experience with distributed systems at scale.
- Must obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- Work-life flexibility, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-growth 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.