Sr. Software Development Engineer, US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security

Are you driven by new technology and building software to solve complex business problems? Do you want to work on high-impact, business-critical projects in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment? If so, this is an excellent opportunity for you. We are looking for a passionate senior software engineer to join a high-visibility team in AWS US ADC Security, where you'll make a direct, positive impact on the customer experience.

About the role

You'll help build technology for new business initiatives, including ground-up product development. This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Build innovative, high-volume, full-stack applications leveraging AWS and common industry standards
• Partner with key stakeholders, both domestic and international, who use our platform to streamline government security clearance workflow processes
• Manage globally regionalized resources, implement enhanced security measures, and build microservices for data exploration and visualization of business insights across AWS
• Design highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems using cloud-native architectural patterns
• Own solutions end-to-end, pushing your design and architecture limits
• Design scalable and fault-tolerant platform components that power full-stack applications for building compelling user experiences
• Collaborate with admin users and product teams on UX design to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes, and transform them into engaging experiences
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automation, and processes used by teams across AWS
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews
• Dive deep into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, and extensibility
• Mentor teammates to promote engineering excellence

A day in the life

You'll spend your day designing and building full-stack applications that power internal tooling for Security Engineers across the ADC space. Expect a mix of hands-on coding, peer code reviews, and diving deep into client and server systems to optimize for performance, scalability, and reliability. You'll collaborate with product teams and admin users on UX design, propose new features, and prototype ideas quickly. You'll also partner with business leaders and other AWS engineering teams to turn new business initiatives into shipped product, while mentoring teammates along the way.

About the team

The AWS US ADC Security Engineering team builds and provides operational support for the internal tools that Security Engineers rely on across the Amazon Dedicated Cloud space. We work in a fast-paced environment across many disciplines, collaborating with other AWS teams to deliver services for our customers. We care deeply about customer experience, security, and operational excellence, and we like to dive deep and follow problems all the way to real solutions.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 5+ years of full stack development experience, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems using cloud-native architectural patterns

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off and parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Pay

USA, VA, Herndon - $168,100.00 - $227,400.00 USD annually