Software Development Engineer, AWS Config, AWS Config

AWS Config is the service that lets customers assess audit and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources at scale. Config continuously records resource configuration changes and relationships across accounts and regions and powers compliance security and governance for millions of customers.

Were investing heavily in the next generation of the service from the ingestion and recording backend to the customer-facing console experience and were looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build it.

This is a full-stack role. Youll work across the stack: designing and building resilient high-throughput backend APIs and data pipelines that record and process configuration data and building the console and UI experiences that customers use to explore their resources relationships and compliance posture. Youll have opportunities to setup new services and deliver features to existing services from design docs and API contracts through implementation testing deployment and operations.

Youll join a team that values operational excellence thoughtful design and mentorship. Youll partner with senior engineers principal engineers product managers and other AWS service teams to have direct impact on how customers understand and secure their cloud footprint.

Key job responsibilities
- Design build and operate scalable backend services and APIs that record process and serve AWS resource configuration data.
- Build customer-facing console and web experiences translating customer needs into intuitive performant and accessible UI.
- Write high-quality well-tested code across the stack and contribute to design and code reviews.
- Own the operational health of your services participate in on-call monitor with metrics and alarms and drive down operational load through automation.
- Leverage AI to efficiently and effectively execute your job
- Collaborate with senior engineers and principal engineers on architecture and technical direction and help raise the bar through mentorship and design feedback.

A day in the life
You might start the day refining an API contract with a partner team move into implementing a new console view backed by that API review a teammates CR and wrap up by cutting an alarm-driven improvement to reduce recurring on-call noise. Youll balance new feature delivery with the operational excellence that keeps a AWS service healthy.

About the team
The AWS Config Recorder Management team owns configuration recording and resource-relationship data for AWS. Our work spans a high-scale ingestion backend and the console experiences customers rely on for compliance and governance. We care deeply about each team member and respect their opinions. We prioritize operational excellence sustainable on-call and growing engineers.


- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually