Amazon
Sr Software Development Engineer, Piezo
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the first three basic qualifications; mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience also required.
About the job
Designs and delivers cryptographic systems that give AWS customers verifiable control over access to their data and metadata.
What you'll do
- Design and implement security systems using cryptography, PKI, formal verification, and distributed systems.
- Lead multi-quarter initiatives from design through deployment and drive technical decisions across teams.
- Mentor engineers, review code, debug complex systems, and improve operational and engineering standards.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience in 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 engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Rust, PKI
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