Senior SDE - EC2 Control Plane Architect (Air-Gapped)

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

Benefits offered by this job

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Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer III to lead architecture and technical direction for EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions, defining how government cloud infrastructure evolves at scale.

You will architect deployment pipelines for disconnected regions, mentor engineers, and influence cross-team roadmaps while exploring AI-driven automation to raise code quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
• 5+ years of non-internship 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

• 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 regions, including 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.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Mentoring engineers

Design patterns

Deployment pipelines

Cross-team collaboration

AI tooling evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer III to lead architecture and technical direction for EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions, defining how government cloud infrastructure evolves at scale.

You will architect deployment pipelines for disconnected regions, mentor engineers, and influence cross-team roadmaps while exploring AI-driven automation to raise code quality and reliability.