Front-End Engineer, AWS Cryptography

US, WA, Seattle April 18, 2026 Full Time Amazon Custom Ats (Amazon.jobs)
Do you want to help secure web services by implementing cryptography at scale? Security is the #1 concern of customers moving to the cloud and the AWS Cryptography team provides the security features our customers need. We enable customers to confidently move sensitive workloads to the cloud where they can benefit from strong security controls that help meet internal and external compliance requirements. Come join a creative team dedicated to keeping millions of customers’ data safe! AWS KMS, AWS CloudHSM, and Amazon Payment Cryptography provide managed or dedicated, FIPS-validated cryptographic key storage and operations—ranging from simplified, highly integrated encryption (KMS) and single-tenant hardware control (CloudHSM) to specialized payment card processing (Payment Cryptography)—to secure data and meet regulatory compliance.
We are looking for an experienced front-end developer to join us in building the most secure services in AWS. Our systems protect customer content and accelerate use of cryptography in all AWS services. You should have experience developing customer-centric systems and a passion for delivering software solutions using scalable, distributed architecture. Along with senior leaders, principal engineers, and security specialists you will discover and solve the new interesting challenges of growing and operating a globally distributed cryptographic security service.


Key job responsibilities
• working on a massively scalable services critical to data protection in AWS.
• designing, implementing, and testing new features for AWS Cryptography.
• operating an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers.
• working as part of a team to develop solutions for our customers.
• owning one of the most secure and reliable services in all of AWS.

Basic Qualifications

- 2+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- 1+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react

Preferred Qualifications

- 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

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USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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