Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Config
$168K–$227K
Arlington, VA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience areas; leadership experience required, with no years specified.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads architecture and delivery of AWS Config’s distributed compliance services, enabling customers to assess, query, aggregate, and remediate compliance issues at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver highly available, high-scale distributed services; own architecture, interfaces, and scaling strategies.
- Set technical direction, coordinate parallel workstreams, and influence adjacent teams and roadmap planning.
- Improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency; mentor engineers and participate in on-call and root cause analysis.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS Config, Config Recording, Config Rules, Resource Explorer, Security Hub, Weirwood, Control Tower
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