Senior SDE, AWS Config Reaction — Lead Architecture & Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Basic Life & AD&D insurance

Supplemental life plans

EAP

Mental Health Support

Medical Advice Line

Flexible Spending Accounts

Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a senior software development engineer (SDE III) to own architecture and technical direction of the AWS Config Reaction platform, including the rules evaluation engine, conformance packs, advanced query, aggregators, and automated remediation.

You will lead design of distributed systems at scale, mentor engineers, and drive delivery across the team, working with a Principal Engineer and coordinating with related services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of high-scale, highly available distributed services that power the AWS Config Compliance Reporting platforms.
• Own team-level architecture decisions — define system boundaries, interfaces, and scaling strategies in complex problem spaces with visible risks, roadblocks, and constraints.
• Decompose large efforts into parallel workstreams, enabling the team to deliver cohesively at speed.
• Drive technical direction across the team and influence adjacent teams when projects cross boundaries.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency proactively — identifying problems before they become incidents.
• Mentor and raise the bar for engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Participate in on-call rotation, drive root cause analysis, and build lasting operational improvements.
• Represent the team's technical perspective in roadmap discussions and contribute to multi-quarter planning.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Mentoring

Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a senior software development engineer (SDE III) to own architecture and technical direction of the AWS Config Reaction platform, including the rules evaluation engine, conformance packs, advanced query, aggregators, and automated remediation.

You will lead design of distributed systems at scale, mentor engineers, and drive delivery across the team, working with a Principal Engineer and coordinating with related services.