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Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Config

Arlington, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $168,100–$227,400🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead architecture and technical direction for high-scale distributed systems that evaluate compliance, aggregate data, and automate remediation for AWS customers.

Role type

Senior IC software development engineer (distributed systems architecture)

Builds

AWS Config Compliance Reporting platforms (rules evaluation engine, conformance packs, advanced query, aggregators, automated remediation)

Domain

Cloud infrastructure / Compliance & Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

distributed systems design, system architecture, scalability, reliability, mentoring, technical leadership, design patterns

Preferred skills

full software development life cycle, coding standards, code reviews, source control, testing, operations

Technologies

AWS ecosystem (implied by context of AWS Config, Regions, Organizations)

Responsibilities

Lead design and delivery of high-scale distributed services, own team-level architecture decisions, decompose large efforts into parallel workstreams, drive technical direction across teams, improve platform scalability and cost efficiency, mentor engineers, participate in on-call and root cause analysis

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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