SDE II: Secure Embedded Fleet Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Jessup (MD); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Jessup, MD is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate a mission-critical, multi-tenant platform for managing large-scale fleets of embedded devices in highly secure environments.

You will contribute to distributed systems, security engineering, and fleet operations while upholding strict reliability and compliance standards. The role requires a US citizen with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph eligibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
• 2+ years of experience with C, C++, or Rust.
• Strong background in security-hardened system design, including PKI, mutual TLS, and cryptographic signing.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases with row-level security and policy-based access control.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cryptographic trust infrastructure supporting multiple certificate authority hierarchies with offline validation mechanisms for disconnected environments.
• Implement multi-tenant data isolation using ABAC, row-level security, and transparent query rewriting for scaling from single-tenant to hundreds of tenants.
• Develop cryptographic integrity mechanisms for configuration and audit data, including chained signatures and tamper-evident logging.
• Engineer emergency access workflows with time-bounded credentials, multi-party approval, and segregated audit trails.
• Ensure all cryptographic operations leverage FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated key management with strict key isolation boundaries.
• Design reconciliation protocols where edge devices remain the source of truth while backend systems maintain synchronized projections.

Skills

C

C++

Rust

PKI

TLS

Security design

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Jessup, MD is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate a mission-critical, multi-tenant platform for managing large-scale fleets of embedded devices in highly secure environments.

You will contribute to distributed systems, security engineering, and fleet operations while upholding strict reliability and compliance standards. The role requires a US citizen with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph eligibility.