3 days ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$129k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deliver technology solutions that improve engineering and operational processes and apply those improvements across partner teams.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, mentoring, hiring, and development for engineers.
- Own team systems by identifying and mitigating risks, reducing complexity, and improving resilience, performance, and business value.
- Design, implement, and deliver technical solutions for complex systems and operational problems.
- Lead architecture, design, operations, process, and post-incident reviews.
- Improve integration and consistency between systems owned by different teams.
- Automate operational “Keeping the Lights On” work across U.S. AWS regions and adopt best practices more quickly.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certification.
- At least 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 1 year of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals, including networking, storage, and operating systems.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby.
- Current, active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility or above.
- Preferred: 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering.
- Preferred: experience working in an Agile environment using Scrum.
- Preferred: programming experience with Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, and supplemental life options.
- 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.
- Potential sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.
- Amazon provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career-growth resources, inclusive affinity groups, and flexible work-life support.
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.