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# Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Inspector

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $143,700 - $194,400
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Perl (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Process Driven Development, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Multithreading, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28168810/Software-Dev-Engineer-Ii-Aws-Inspector-Virginia-Herndon-7375

## About the Role

**Be fun to work with**. Our company credo is "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". The right candidate will love what they do and instinctively know how to make work fun.

**Have a deep understanding of software architecture and development methodology.**The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a software development engineer. You will enjoy keeping your technical skills current, to the point that you can contribute to architecture discussions. You regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical postmortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.

**Have strong project management experience.**The successful candidate will be able to create roadmap and estimation for the project. This will include innovating and inventing new value-add services layered on top of our existing services. Experience with Agile methodologies is an advantage.

**Know how to run a tight, lean, efficient operation.**The right candidate will want to measure everything. You will excel at using metrics, monitoring, and alarming to measure and improve the operational processes and performance of the team. On-call responsibility is part of this job profile, 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

## Description

Come and build the future with us. Our mission is to keep AWS customers safe and secure by helping them detect and remediate vulnerabilities at never before seen scale.

Amazon Inspector helps AWS customers improve their security posture by continuously monitoring their cloud infrastructure and associated workloads against vulnerabilities and exposures. When it comes to security, time is of the essence. Our goal is to help our customers quickly discover and remediate vulnerabilities that poses the greatest risk to their organization.

We are innovating new ways of building massively scalable and globally distributed security systems for assisting our customers with security and compliance. Security Services are crucial for long-term success of AWS and it is the future of AWS. We are rapidly expanding our team to meet our fast growing needs.