SDE II: Air-Gapped EC2 Control-Plane & Automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Denver (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions, helping governments run secure cloud infrastructure at scale.

You will own features end to end—from design through production—and work with teams across air-gapped partitions to deliver reliable infrastructure. A TS/SCI clearance is required, and sponsorship is provided for each agency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 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.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate EC2 control-plane services, fleet health automation, and capacity tooling across air-gapped cloud environments.
• Own features end to end: write the design, implement and test the code, deploy it through pipelines to disconnected regions, and operate it in production, including on-call.
• Improve monitoring, alarming, and deployment safety for the services you own, and drive the fix when an operational issue reveals a gap.
• Work with partner teams and stakeholders across the air-gapped partitions to deliver shared infrastructure.
• Take part in design and code reviews, and help new engineers ramp up on the team's systems.
• Use generative artificial intelligence tools and techniques to improve automation, code quality, and team productivity.

Skills

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Object Oriented Design

Distributed systems

Design patterns

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions, helping governments run secure cloud infrastructure at scale.

You will own features end to end—from design through production—and work with teams across air-gapped partitions to deliver reliable infrastructure. A TS/SCI clearance is required, and sponsorship is provided for each agency.