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Software Dev Engineer , Key Management Service

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USA, WA, Seattle$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Role focused on security and cryptography within AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Build and maintain massively scalable distributed cryptographic systems, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to design, implement, test, and operate secure software used across AWS services.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
  • Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
  • Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
  • Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
  • Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
  • Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

Required:Software developmentSystem design / architectureObject Oriented DesignDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • RSUs and sign-on payments
  • Comprehensive benefits details available at amazon.jobs/en/benefits
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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