Senior SDE - Air-Gapped EC2 Control-Plane Architect

Amazon Inc.

Herndon (VA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 227,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead the architecture and technical direction for EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions. You will shape deployment pipelines, drive cross-team infrastructure goals, and mentor engineers while pursuing innovative AI-enabled automation and tooling.

This role requires strong technical leadership, deep systems design experience, and the ability to navigate complex, regulated environments.

Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

Architect and define the technical direction for EC2 control-plane services, fleet health automation, and capacity tooling across air-gapped cloud environments, driving system design decisions that reduce blast radius and improve fleet reliability.
Own end-to-end design of deployment pipelines and deployment orchestration for disconnected, isolated regions, including defining deployment strategies, monitoring standards, and incident response frameworks.
Influence cross-team roadmaps and align multiple teams on shared infrastructure goals, data quality standards, and tooling strategy while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across the air-gapped partition ecosystem.
Mentor and develop engineers across the team, conduct design and code reviews, and raise the technical bar for the organization.
Evaluate opportunities to integrate generative artificial intelligence tools and techniques to improve automation, code quality, and team productivity.