Software Development Engineer, ADC2S
Amazon Web Services· Arlington, Herndon, Seattle and Denver, US
Posted October 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Pay
- $144K – $194K per year
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Location
- Arlington, Herndon, Seattle and Denver, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
About this role
AWS runs EC2 in isolated, air-gapped cloud regions for government customers. This SDE II role builds and operates the control-plane services, fleet-health automation and capacity tooling for those regions, including on-call ownership.
What you will do
- Design, build and operate EC2 control-plane services and capacity tooling
- Own features end to end from design to production, including on-call
- Improve monitoring, alarming and deployment safety
- Work with partner teams across air-gapped partitions
- Take part in design and code reviews and help new engineers ramp up
- Use generative AI tools to improve automation and code quality
What the employer expects
- Bachelor's degree or CSSLP
- 3+ years of professional software development
- 2+ years of design or architecture experience
- Experience in at least one programming language
- Ability to obtain and keep a TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
Benefits
- Sign-on payments and RSUs
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Skills
- EC2 control plane
- Distributed systems
- Fleet health automation
- Capacity tooling
- Monitoring and alarming
- Deployment pipelines
- Generative AI tools
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