Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect & Tech Lead

Amazon; Herndon (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

Sign-on payments and RSUs

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer III in Herndon, VA to lead design, development, and delivery of complex software spanning the full product lifecycle. You will tackle ambiguous, high-impact problems, shape architectural direction, and mentor engineers across the organization.

You will work on foundational services enabling continuous deployment, testing, and configuration management, delivering scalable, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design/architecture of systems.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of multi-feature software systems across teams.
• Guide short-term delivery vs long-term architectural health and technology choices.
• Drive best practices: code quality, alarms, telemetry, runbooks, retrospectives.
• Mentor engineers and developers across the organization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver high-quality software.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Mentoring

Code quality

Platform independence

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree or CSSLP

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer III in Herndon, VA to lead design, development, and delivery of complex software spanning the full product lifecycle. You will tackle ambiguous, high-impact problems, shape architectural direction, and mentor engineers across the organization.

You will work on foundational services enabling continuous deployment, testing, and configuration management, delivering scalable, secure solutions.