Sr. Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Trust Infrastructure

Sr. Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Trust Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services is looking for Sr. Software Development Engineers. This position is a hands-on leadership role focusing on complex, ambiguous problem areas and innovative software initiatives in EC2 Trust Infrastructure team within AWS Compute & Networking organization. This role requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of control plane software development, DevOps roles, infrastructure tools and distributed systems, as well as demonstrated experience in planning, organizing, refactoring, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment. You will work closely with Security Engineers, Software Developers, Principal and Distinguished Engineers throughout AWS to define technical roadmap and follow through with world-class execution.
EC2 Trust Infrastructure team provides trust services for the EC2 substrate network. We architect, develop and own tier1 services that act as the gatekeepers for EC2 substrate network. These services provide state-of-the-art security and trust services right from ensuring supply chain security to secure boot to providing authentication and authorization services in the substrate. We also provide highly available interfaces for efficient management of EC2 inventory attributes and provide analytical reporting on unusable capacity available for better capacity utilization.
If the challenge of building the next generation of compute platform excites you, come join us to shape the future of compute services!
Key job responsibilities
1. Partner with the leadership team to build the roadmap for the services and take a long-term view.
2. Design, develop, operate and own large-scale services, architecting them to scale
3. Provide technical leadership and mentor lead junior engineers in the team
4. Write high quality code to develop new systems, conduct deep design and code reviews
5. Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context, and implementing fixes to ensure that an issue will never happen again
About the team
EC2 Trust Infrastructure team provides trust services for the EC2 substrate network. We architect, develop and own tier1 services that act as the gatekeepers for EC2 substrate network providing state-of-the-art security and trust services right from ensuring supply chain security to secure boot to providing authentication and authorization services in substrate. We also provide highly available interfaces for efficient management of EC2 inventory attributes and provide analytical reporting on unusable capacity available for better capacity utilization.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA

- 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

- Experience with agile software development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
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