Public Sector DNS Security Engineer

Amazon Advertising LLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Advertising LLC in Arlington, VA is seeking a mid-level Software Development Engineer to join the team that designs, builds, and operates Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and Route 53 Profiles. You will work on cloud-native DNS security and DNS resource management services that protect millions of VPCs and enable centralized configurations across multi-account environments.

You will help design and build solutions for threat detection, enable centralized DNS configurations, and collaborate

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Work across the entire stack—control plane, data plane, API surfaces, and deep integrations with Route 53 Resolver, VPC networking, Private Link, AWS RAM, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Organizations.
• Design and build advanced detection features, enhance configurability for customers, and help architect next-generation protections including agentic attack prevention capabilities.
• Coach and develop junior engineers and help drive system architecture for scalable services.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Advertising LLC in Arlington, VA is seeking a mid-level Software Development Engineer to join the team that designs, builds, and operates Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and Route 53 Profiles. You will work on cloud-native DNS security and DNS resource management services that protect millions of VPCs and enable centralized configurations across multi-account environments.

You will help design and build solutions for threat detection, enable centralized DNS configurations, and collaborate