Software Development Engineer (EC2 Control Plane)

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Development Engineer (EC2 control-plane services)

• Environment: Air-gapped/disconnected cloud regions

• Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph (required; sponsorship provided)

Description

You will design, build, and operate Amazon EC2 control-plane services, including fleet health automation and capacity tooling in air-gapped regions. You will own features end to end—design, implement and test, deploy through pipelines to disconnected regions, and operate in production with on-call. You’ll also improve monitoring, alarming, and deployment safety, working across air-gapped partitions and using generative AI to enhance automation and code quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate EC2 control-plane services, fleet-health automation, and capacity tooling across air-gapped environments

• Deliver features end to end (design, implementation, testing, disconnected-region deployment, production operations, on-call)

• Improve monitoring, alarming, and deployment safety; drive fixes for operational gaps

• Partner with teams and stakeholders across air-gapped partitions for shared infrastructure

• Participate in design and code reviews; help ramp up new engineers

• Use generative AI tools and techniques to improve automation, code quality, and productivity

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph; sponsorship for commensurate clearance upon start

• Bachelor’s degree or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, scaling)

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience (coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, operations)

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) plus Basic Life & AD&D and optional Supplemental life; EAP and Mental Health Support; Medical Advice Line; Flexible Spending Accounts

• 401(k) matching

• Paid time off

• Parental leave

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)