About the Role
The AWS InfraSec-HLS team is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join our Software Development team. You will design, build, and operate the software that secures devices across the AWS network. You own your features end-to-end and you're expected to leave the systems better than you found them. You'll mentor other engineers, help new team members get up to speed, and push for better operational practices. When hard tradeoffs come up, you work through them with your peers and senior engineers.
We need someone who can work autonomously on problems where the goal is clear but the path isn't. You should be comfortable making design decisions, balancing short-term needs against long-term health, and shipping software that others can maintain without you.
Key job responsibilities
• Design and deliver software features spanning major portions of the team's systems, including new development, refactoring, and deprecation.
• Own the full software development lifecycle: scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, operations, and documentation.
• Identify root causes of operational issues and resolve them with permanent fixes. Don't settle for the status quo.
• Provide meaningful code review feedback to peers, including those more senior, and use review as a coaching mechanism.
• Document how your team's software is constructed, tested, operated, and secured, and train new team members on these points.
• Work with customers, stakeholders, and peers to understand business and customer value and ensure you deliver the right solutions.
• Make priority tradeoffs between new feature development and operational work.
• Resolve disagreements with peers through constructive dialogue.
• On-call rotation to support the services owned by the team.
What We're Looking For
• Experience delivering software end-to-end in production.
• Ability to design solutions when the implementation isn't handed to you.
• Track record of fixing systemic issues, not just symptoms.
• Experience helping other engineers grow.
• Preference for durable solutions over quick fixes.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, security, or infrastructure engineering.
• Judgment on when to push forward alone and when to pull others in.
BASIC 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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Herndon - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
