Senior AWS Config Architect – Scale & Security

Socket.dev; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Arlington, VA is seeking an SDE III to own architecture and technical direction of the AWS Config Reaction platform, including rules evaluation, conformance packs, and advanced queries. You'll shape design across millions of resources and drive delivery at scale.

You will lead distributed systems, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call and incident response while aligning with cross-team stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of high-scale, highly available distributed services that power the AWS Config Compliance Reporting platforms.
• Own team-level architecture decisions — define system boundaries, interfaces, and scaling strategies in complex problem spaces with visible risks, roadblocks, and constraints.
• Decompose large efforts into parallel workstreams, enabling the team to deliver cohesively at speed.
• Drive technical direction across the team and influence adjacent teams when projects cross boundaries.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency proactively — identifying problems before they become incidents.
• Mentor and raise the bar for L4 and L5 engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Participate in on-call rotation, drive root cause analysis, and build lasting operational improvements.
• Represent the team's technical perspective in roadmap discussions and contribute to multi-quarter planning.

Skills

Software development

Architecture leadership

Mentorship

Distributed systems

On-call / incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon in Arlington, VA is seeking an SDE III to own architecture and technical direction of the AWS Config Reaction platform, including rules evaluation, conformance packs, and advanced queries. You'll shape design across millions of resources and drive delivery at scale.

You will lead distributed systems, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call and incident response while aligning with cross-team stakeholders.