Senior Software Dev Engineer, AWS Edge Connectivity

Role description

AWS Edge Connectivity service enables dedicated AWS Cloud connectivity options for US Intelligence and Department of Defense customers. These connectivity options allow our customer to deploy and run their isolated, sensitive workloads in an environment exclusive for their use‑case. We help our customers to onboard, manage, and scale their connectivity options for maintaining persistent connection to AWS Isolated cloud.

In this role, you will build a new space‑to‑ground network service which customers will use to connect to Amazon's Dedicated Cloud partitions. You'll architect and implement software security protocols across Wide Area Networks (WANs), ensuring seamless and secure access to dedicated cloud environments. By developing a secure space‑to‑ground communications system, you'll protect critical customer connections flowing through Amazon's global network backbone.

You'll leverage the AWS ecosystem and integrate with third‑party solutions to create a control and data plane that meet our customers' stringent security requirements. Working alongside technology experts across Amazon, you'll define the next generation of dedicated cloud connectivity, setting new standards for enterprise‑grade security. Your expertise in network encryption and software development will directly impact how AWS customers access their mission‑critical cloud infrastructure.

The candidate selected must be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level. Upon start, the selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

• Provide technical leadership in developing high assurance software systems
• Develop software using Rust, and integrate with third‑party libraries to build end‑to‑end layer 2 to layer 4 networking solutions
• Decompose complex cryptographic and security requirements from government standards into actionable software design specifications
• Analyze and translate keying requirements including key generation, establishment, distribution, storage, and zeroization into embedded software implementations that meet government certification standards
• Lead design and system engineers to perform tradeoffs and architect new solutions for customers
• Lead design meetings to plan development and review peer designs
• Help identify new opportunities and new technologies to improve the customer experience and add features
• Mentor and develop peers and junior engineers

You will be a technical leader on a cross‑functional team of software developers, writing software in Rust. You will help set and maintain the standard for code quality, understanding and planning for the impact of team decisions on software architecture in team meetings, code reviews and through written documents. You will lead architectural discussions, and strategic planning meetings. You will use and develop CI/CD pipelines to automatically run your own unit tests and hardware‑in‑the‑loop tests.

You will develop and document software sub‑systems and components in Rust, and coordinate with the team daily to make design decisions, resolve blockers, and review code. You will demonstrate a high standard, help prioritize development activities and actively mentor other engineers.

• 7+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 3+ years of experience with at least one system programming language such as Rust, Java, C, or C++

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 10+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standard, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 5+ years of experience developing networking software
• 2+ years of experience in Rust
• Strong knowledge of networking, security, and…