Senior CloudTrail Engineer - Scalable Backend Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA seeks an experienced full-stack engineer with a backend emphasis to help define system architecture and build highly available, secure services for AWS. You will work across teams to deliver scalable, event-driven solutions.

The role emphasizes mentorship, design leadership, and collaboration, with on-call duties every two months and a strong focus on reliability and performance. Join a team committed to inclusive, high-impact engineering.

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.
• 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

Architecture design

Mentorship / Tech lead

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA seeks an experienced full-stack engineer with a backend emphasis to help define system architecture and build highly available, secure services for AWS. You will work across teams to deliver scalable, event-driven solutions.

The role emphasizes mentorship, design leadership, and collaboration, with on-call duties every two months and a strong focus on reliability and performance. Join a team committed to inclusive, high-impact engineering.