Senior Platform Engineer — Secure Fleet & Edge IoT

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate a multi‑tenant platform for embedded devices.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable distributed systems and compliance with high security standards in a critical AWS infrastructure environment. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in design/architecture and 5+ years in software development, with strong security and database experience, plus leadership capabilities for an

Qualifications

• 7+ years of leading design or architecture of distributed systems.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Security‑hardened system design experience including PKI and mutual TLS.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop a decomposed microservices platform for fleet management, device communication, logging, security, and presentation layers.
• Design secure inter-service communication for REST/mTLS and high‑throughput data planes.
• Build cryptographic trust infrastructure with multiple certificate authorities and offline validation.
• Implement ABAC/RBAC and data isolation to scale multi‑tenant environments.
• Develop tamper‑evident logs and integrity mechanisms; support edge vs backend reconciliation.

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate a multi‑tenant platform for embedded devices.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable distributed systems and compliance with high security standards in a critical AWS infrastructure environment. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in design/architecture and 5+ years in software development, with strong security and database experience, plus leadership capabilities for an