Region Expansion Engineer I: Scale Global Launches

Socket.dev; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in USA, VA, Arlington is seeking engineers to join the Region Expansion team to accelerate AWS service launches in new regions with high quality and reliability.

You will design, develop, test, and deploy software that helps service teams expand geographies, tackle distributed systems challenges, and own parts of the roadmap from day one. This role offers a fast-paced, impact‑driven environment with opportunities to influence architecture and processes.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions that enable AWS service teams to launch in new regions efficiently and with high quality.
• Produce clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle — from requirements gathering and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Build and maintain APIs, services, and automation tools that simplify complex multi‑team coordination workflows.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, participate in on‑call rotations, and contribute to operational excellence.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and TPMs to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
• Write documentation for systems you build and maintain, including runbooks and design documents.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing systems — proposing and implementing enhancements to reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Learn and apply AWS services and best practices to solve real‑world distributed systems problems at scale.

Skills

Software development

Programming language

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon in USA, VA, Arlington is seeking engineers to join the Region Expansion team to accelerate AWS service launches in new regions with high quality and reliability.

You will design, develop, test, and deploy software that helps service teams expand geographies, tackle distributed systems challenges, and own parts of the roadmap from day one. This role offers a fast-paced, impact‑driven environment with opportunities to influence architecture and processes.