Amazon
Software Development Engineer, US ADC Security
$144K–$194K
Herndon, VA · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience; preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
About the job
Develops and operates secure tools, automation, and distributed services for Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security Engineering in a classified environment.
What you'll do
- Design and develop secure, highly available distributed software, APIs, and middleware.
- Build infrastructure-as-code automation, deployment and configuration management, and monitoring and alerting systems.
- Partner with internal customers; contribute to design and security reviews, write maintainable code, and perform peer reviews.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional); experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above; selected candidate must be a US Citizen and maintain an active Top Secret clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience in automation or monitoring frameworks, deployment, or development.
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience; experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Chef, Puppet, Ansible
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