Senior Cloud Backend Engineer – Scale, Security, & On-Call

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking an experienced full-stack software engineer with a strong backend focus to help build and operate one of the world's largest audit logging systems.

You will define system architecture, implement components, and drive reliability and scalability while participating in on-call rotations and collaborating with a diverse team to deliver secure, scalable services for AWS customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience
• Build highly available, secure, scalable, distributed and event-driven systems.
• Contribute to planning, architecture design, implementation, testing, and process improvement.
• This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months.

Skills

Software development

Programming

Leadership

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Distributed systems

Architecture design

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking an experienced full-stack software engineer with a strong backend focus to help build and operate one of the world's largest audit logging systems.

You will define system architecture, implement components, and drive reliability and scalability while participating in on-call rotations and collaborating with a diverse team to deliver secure, scalable services for AWS customers.