Software Dev Engineer II, Secure Customer Content Storage and Analytics, AWS Applied AI Solution – Core Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud platform that provides innovative technology solutions to businesses worldwide. The Software Development Engineer II will take ownership of production systems related to secure data storage and analytics, collaborating with teams to enhance AI-driven business applications while ensuring compliance and performance.


Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver complete software features for event-based data storage systems, from design through deployment and operations, ensuring they provide flexible, secure, and compliant platforms for AI-powered business applications
  • Maintain, refactor, and enhance existing storage and analytics platform, identifying opportunities to improve performance, scalability, and operational excellence while eliminating technical debt
  • Design and implement software solutions for data access interfaces and authorization systems within established architectural strategies, seeking guidance from senior engineers when facing complex technical tradeoffs
  • Mentor team members through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing—providing meaningful feedback, training newcomers on system architecture, and facilitating technical discussions that promote operational excellence
  • Resolve operational issues by identifying root causes and implementing permanent fixes for compliance features, data deletion APIs, and customer opt-out mechanisms, going beyond quick workarounds
  • Work directly with business application teams and stakeholders to understand requirements, translating them into technical solutions that balance customer needs with platform sustainability
  • Take ownership of security implementations including encryption, access controls, audit trails, and PII handling, ensuring software can be maintained and extended by other engineers
  • Drive improvements to self-service platforms and control planes, making priority tradeoffs between new feature development and operational work while maintaining governance standards

Skills

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience designing and implementing data storage systems, ETL pipelines, or machine learning infrastructure for model training and evaluation workflows
  • Proven track record building distributed systems with event-driven architectures and APIs that operate reliably at enterprise scale
  • Experience with data security, privacy compliance, and implementing data retention/deletion mechanisms
  • Working knowledge of AWS services for data processing and machine learning such as S3, SageMaker, and related data infrastructure
  • 5+ 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
  • Successful history of cross-team collaboration, driving technical convergence while maintaining delivery velocity
  • Experience with distributed machine learning training platforms and workflow orchestration systems
  • Production experience implementing data access controls, authorization systems, and multi-tenant data isolation
  • Knowledge of PII handling, data pseudonymization, and privacy-preserving techniques
  • Experience building self-service platforms and control planes for data platform management
  • Familiarity with streaming data ingestion, real-time processing, and efficient querying at scale
  • Experience with data lineage tracking, audit trails, and compliance reporting systems

Benefits

  • 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
  • Parental leave

Company Overview

  • Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://aws.amazon.com.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 22803 in 2025, 21175 in 2024, 19057 in 2023, 24088 in 2022, 12233 in 2021, 14881 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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