Senior Privacy Software Architect

Amazon

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 185,000 - 250,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

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Paid time off
Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Privacy Engineering in New York, NY, is seeking a senior software leader to own and drive privacy initiatives across the stack. You will supervise architecture, guide scalable design, and coordinate with product, privacy experts, and leadership to deliver secure, compliant solutions.

You will mentor engineers, shape a bold technical roadmap, and lead large projects with distributed teams while maintaining high standards for reliability and security across services.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a technical leader on the team and influence key technical strategies.
  • Simplify existing systems (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).
  • Lead large projects that require the work of a team, dividing software projects into parallel workstreams that can be delivered independently and unified into cohesive launches.
  • Drive mindful discussions with customers and peers and lead them to towards a bold vision.
  • Take ownership of team architecture, providing a system-wide view and design guidance.
  • Make appropriate architectural trade-offs and deliver innovative, secure, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable and extensible solutions.
  • Drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards
  • Actively recruit and help others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring in our organization.

Skills

Software development
Programming expertise
Technical leadership
Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Privacy Engineering in New York, NY, is seeking a senior software leader to own and drive privacy initiatives across the stack. You will supervise architecture, guide scalable design, and coordinate with product, privacy experts, and leadership to deliver secure, compliant solutions.

You will mentor engineers, shape a bold technical roadmap, and lead large projects with distributed teams while maintaining high standards for reliability and security across services.

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