Software Development Engineer III, Platform Engineering & Emerging Technology

Would you like to implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the world's most complex technical problems? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to build a better world for future generations?

• Lead and architect system-wide solutions spanning multiple engineers and teams
• Drive technology strategy decisions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term vision
• Provide technical leadership in ambiguous environments where technology strategy needs to be defined
• Build consensus across teams and drive adoption of engineering best practices
• Mentor and coach other engineers, fostering a culture of robust software development
• Establish and improve operational practices including monitoring, telemetry, and incident management
• Identify and resolve root causes of endemic problems affecting multiple teams
• Design and maintain scalable, simple, and maintainable systems
• Effectively communicate technical designs and decisions to various audiences

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of non-internship professional 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

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Other benefits

AWS established a specialized group of service teams responsible for the work we are doing with the U.S. Intelligence Community. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need adaptable people to help us implement and operate them.