Software Engineer, AWS Artifact: Scale & Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Herndon, VA is seeking a software engineer to help build scalable, secure, and highly available distributed microservices at Amazon scale. Join a collaborative team focused on compliance and security across AWS, mentoring junior developers and improving agile processes.

You will own critical services, write high-quality code with strong test coverage, and work on projects with high visibility across teams, all while prioritizing reliability and customer trust.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality code with thorough test coverage as you mentor new developers so they can learn from your CRs.
• Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale".
• Realize that making software work is just the start and you value talking about cattle-vs-pets, continuous resiliency and capacity testing.
• Truly care about designing highly available, secure, distributed systems of microservices, then you will make them even better by consulting with peers and technical leaders.
• Work on Agile projects that have high visibility while making continuous improvements to planning, design, implementation, testing, and operations processes.
• Have full ownership and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.]
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• COMPANY NAME: Amazon.com Services LLC
• KEY POINTS: Software development, system design, scalable architectures, AWS security and compliance

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming language

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Generative AI familiarity

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Herndon, VA is seeking a software engineer to help build scalable, secure, and highly available distributed microservices at Amazon scale. Join a collaborative team focused on compliance and security across AWS, mentoring junior developers and improving agile processes.

You will own critical services, write high-quality code with strong test coverage, and work on projects with high visibility across teams, all while prioritizing reliability and customer trust.