107 Software Architect jobs in Santa Monica

**Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:**
Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 
Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here:
**Building the future of Disney's media:** Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
**Reach, Scale & Impact:** More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News.and many more. These products and brands - and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry - matter to millions of people globally. 
**Innovation:** We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team.
This is a **Lead Technical Program Manager** (TPM) position within the DEET Business Operations - Shared Services organization. The Lead TPM will play a leadership role in the delivery and enhancements of business tools including highly integrated COTS systems; these systems range from Atlassian tooling to SAP to internally developed products.
These high-visibility systems are serving business clients that have been shuffled and merged repeatedly - the deployments are complicated and inconsistently documented. The nature of these programs involves stakeholders ranging from business SVPs to engineers and everyone in between - each must be effectively engaged and communicated with.
Our ideal candidate is intuitive, autonomous, has a high degree of technical literacy and a desire to know more. They are proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable quickly switching roles from detective to executive communicator to engineering advocate.
**Basic Qualifications :**
+ 7+ years of relevant work experience
+ Bachelor's degree
+ Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation; ability to develop fundamental technical understanding of the project deliverables
+ Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity; able to drive consensus between cross-functional stakeholder groups
+ Experience playing a leadership role in highly integrated COTS implementation experience
+ Experience managing senior-level client relationships and effectively and efficiently communicating program vision and status in monthly business reviews
+ Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations
+ Deep understanding of SDLC; working understanding of cloud-based development and a desire to know more
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Degree in STEM and / or experience as a software engineer
+ Exposure to modern DevOps and SRE practices around CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Availability, etc
+ Tools expertise including AirTable, Atlassian Suite, Google Suite, and Slack or similar
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica is $155,700 - $208,700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
**Job ID:**
**Location:** Santa Monica,California
**Job Posting Company:** Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.

Description
Come build the future of data streaming with the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) team!
We are seeking builders for our Amazon MSK service, a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. We are looking for engineers who are enthusiastic about data streaming, and are as passionate about contributing to open source as they are about solving real customers' business needs, at AWS scale.
As a member of the Amazon MSK team, you will be making contributions to the entire stack - the APIs and the workflows that make up the MSK service, the core Kafka platform, and stand-alone tools that make it easier for Kafka community to operate Kafka better. Upstream compatibility is a core tenet of MSK. Your code changes to the Kafka platform will be released back to open source. As a member of an AWS service that builds on top of a popular open source technology, this is a unique opportunity to work on a team that straddles both worlds - open source and Amazon-internal software. You will design and build new features, make performance improvements, identify and investigate new technologies, prototype solutions, build scalable services, and test and review changes, to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
The ideal candidate has experience designing large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second, enjoys solving complex software problems, and possesses analytical, design and problem-solving skills. Ideally you have an in-depth understanding of streaming data technologies like Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka, and experience with open-source data processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service, and work with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap, including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.
Learn more about Amazon MSK: - AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) Launch
* AWS re:Invent 2020: How Goldman Sachs uses an Amazon MSK backbone for Transaction Banking Platform
* AWS re:Invent 2020: How New Relic is migrating its Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon MSK
* AWS re:Invent 2021: How Coinbase uses Amazon MSK as an event store for applications
* MSK Tiered Storage: Optimize cost and improve Kafka scalability
* AWS re:Invent 2023: How Rivian builds real-time analytics from electric vehicles
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations - from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
About the team
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Description
Application deadline: Dec 17, 2025
The Cinder team in Amazon Ads operates at high scale, with high expectations. We own the core bidding systems that deliver ads to Amazon's owned and operated properties and external publishers, focused on scalability, extensibility, and privacy and balancing the needs of advertisers, publishers and consumers. Our real-time systems service hundreds of billions of ad requests daily, with response latencies measured in milliseconds. Our off-line systems process millions of configuration changes daily that our customers expect to see live in minutes.
The Amazon Ads business is an exciting fast-paced environment, and our team is no exception. The service and solutions we produce are used by dozens of internal business teams, as well as Amazon customers: publishers, broadcasters, and advertisers. As we scale, there are continually opportunities to refine and improve our systems. Every contributor on the team has a chance to have a material impact on our business.
Key job responsibilities
As a senior Software Development Engineer for Cinder, you will (a) partner with teams across the organization worldwide to build robust scalable extensible solutions to realize their goals, (b) drive the design, development, and continuous improvement of our ad-serving systems via your own contribution and experimentation and the leadership of others, and (c) invent and deliver initiatives to simplify our systems, reduce the unit cost to serve, and improve reliability.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering results on an ad exchange at scale, be detail-oriented, data-driven, and possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills. You must be able to thrive and succeed in a fast-moving environment with abundant ambiguity and competing priorities. You will be able to understand the goals, priorities, and technical challenges of the Cinder team, and apply them to design decisions, and understand and translate customer needs into technical details. You will anticipate obstacles and make trade-offs, manage escalations, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to operate effectively at different levels, from driving cross-functional collaboration, to working directly with and influencing engineer teams.
Basic Qualifications
- 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading 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 as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience building high-performance, highly-available, and scalable distributed systems, in a UNIX environment
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The Colorado base pay for this position ranges from $168,100/year up to $27,400/year. The National base pay for this position ranges from 151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to 261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Description
Come build the future of data streaming with the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) team!
We are seeking builders for our Amazon MSK service, a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. We are looking for engineers who are enthusiastic about data streaming, and are as passionate about contributing to open source as they are about solving real customers' business needs, at AWS scale.
As a member of the Amazon MSK team, you will be making contributions to the entire stack - the APIs and the workflows that make up the MSK service, the core Kafka platform, and stand-alone tools that make it easier for Kafka community to operate Kafka better. Upstream compatibility is a core tenet of MSK. Your code changes to the Kafka platform will be released back to open source. As a member of an AWS service that builds on top of a popular open source technology, this is a unique opportunity to work on a team that straddles both worlds - open source and Amazon-internal software. You will design and build new features, make performance improvements, identify and investigate new technologies, prototype solutions, build scalable services, and test and review changes, to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
The ideal candidate has experience designing large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second, enjoys solving complex software problems, and possesses analytical, design and problem-solving skills. Ideally you have an in-depth understanding of streaming data technologies like Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka, and experience with open-source data processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service, and work with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap, including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.
Learn more about Amazon MSK: - AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) Launch
* AWS re:Invent 2020: How Goldman Sachs uses an Amazon MSK backbone for Transaction Banking Platform
* AWS re:Invent 2020: How New Relic is migrating its Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon MSK
* AWS re:Invent 2021: How Coinbase uses Amazon MSK as an event store for applications
* MSK Tiered Storage: Optimize cost and improve Kafka scalability
* AWS re:Invent 2023: How Rivian builds real-time analytics from electric vehicles
Basic 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
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Description
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon owned and operated sites, other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of TV, tablet, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you're interested in leading a world-class organization with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place!
Our team within the Creative X org is focused on creating an engaging user experience through content and interactivity enrichment, while helping advertisers reach their target audience at scale. We're seeking a principal software development engineer to architect, lead, and influence critical initiatives that will shape the technical direction across multiple teams. As a Senior SDE, you will:
- Define and drive technical strategy and architecture at the organizational level, making high-impact decisions that influence multiple teams and services
- Build and lead multiple teams of engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation
- Design and oversee the implementation of large-scale distributed systems
- Partner with senior leadership to define long-term technical vision and roadmaps that align with organizational objectives
- Establish and champion best practices in software development, including architectural patterns, testing frameworks, and operational excellence
- Identify strategic technical opportunities and risks at the organizational level
- Drive cross-organizational initiatives and build consensus across multiple stakeholder groups
- Influence technical decisions beyond your immediate organization through thought leadership and mentorship
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of new technologies that can provide strategic advantages
You will be instrumental in shaping the technical direction of Amazon Advertising's content and metadata systems while delivering scalable solutions that enhance customer experience. This role requires exceptional technical leadership, extensive system design expertise, and the ability to drive organizational-level technical strategy while balancing immediate business needs. You'll be expected to make significant architectural decisions while building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and define technical architecture across our organization, making strategic decisions that influence the broader advertising technology ecosystem
- Establish and drive engineering excellence at scale by defining architectural principles, engineering standards, and best practices that span multiple teams
- Build and develop technical leadership across teams, mentoring engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
- Own the technical strategy and execution of major initiatives that span multiple teams, from conception through successful deployment
- Partner with leadership to shape product strategy and technical direction, providing architectural vision and guidance that aligns with long-term business objectives
- Design and architect distributed systems at scale while ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the organization
- Lead organization-wide technical forums and architecture reviews, driving alignment and consensus across multiple stakeholder groups and technical leaders
- Identify strategic technical opportunities and risks at the organizational level, developing comprehensive plans to address them before they impact business outcomes
- Build and maintain strong partnerships across organizations, influencing technical decisions and driving integration of complex systems at scale
- Define and implement operational excellence standards across multiple teams, establishing best practices for system observability, reliability, and incident management
- Drive technological innovation at scale by evaluating emerging technologies and architectural patterns, making strategic recommendations that provide competitive advantages
- Influence product and technical roadmaps beyond immediate team boundaries, ensuring technical decisions support broader organizational goals
- Lead resolution for critical production issues, establishing processes to prevent future occurrences
A day in the life
* Write/review code, lead design discussions, and ultimately deploy robust and high impact services.
* Work with stakeholders to find and implement solutions
* Mentor junior engineers, raise the team's engineering practice bar, and help build/grow the team.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Experience in Ads technology and product
- Experience in building and integrating with high-scale services
- Knowledge of software development methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in a developer role
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience with building accounting automation services
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Description
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon owned and operated sites, other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of TV, tablet, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you're interested in leading a world-class organization with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place!
Our team within the Creative X org is focused on creating an engaging user experience through content and interactivity enrichment, while helping advertisers reach their target audience at scale. We're seeking a principal software development engineer to architect, lead, and influence critical initiatives that will shape the technical direction across multiple teams. As a Senior SDE, you will:
- Define and drive technical strategy and architecture at the organizational level, making high-impact decisions that influence multiple teams and services
- Build and lead multiple teams of engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation
- Design and oversee the implementation of large-scale distributed systems
- Partner with senior leadership to define long-term technical vision and roadmaps that align with organizational objectives
- Establish and champion best practices in software development, including architectural patterns, testing frameworks, and operational excellence
- Identify strategic technical opportunities and risks at the organizational level
- Drive cross-organizational initiatives and build consensus across multiple stakeholder groups
- Influence technical decisions beyond your immediate organization through thought leadership and mentorship
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of new technologies that can provide strategic advantages
You will be instrumental in shaping the technical direction of Amazon Advertising's content and metadata systems while delivering scalable solutions that enhance customer experience. This role requires exceptional technical leadership, extensive system design expertise, and the ability to drive organizational-level technical strategy while balancing immediate business needs. You'll be expected to make significant architectural decisions while building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and define technical architecture across our organization, making strategic decisions that influence the broader advertising technology ecosystem
- Establish and drive engineering excellence at scale by defining architectural principles, engineering standards, and best practices that span multiple teams
- Build and develop technical leadership across teams, mentoring engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
- Own the technical strategy and execution of major initiatives that span multiple teams, from conception through successful deployment
- Partner with leadership to shape product strategy and technical direction, providing architectural vision and guidance that aligns with long-term business objectives
- Design and architect distributed systems at scale while ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the organization
- Lead organization-wide technical forums and architecture reviews, driving alignment and consensus across multiple stakeholder groups and technical leaders
- Identify strategic technical opportunities and risks at the organizational level, developing comprehensive plans to address them before they impact business outcomes
- Build and maintain strong partnerships across organizations, influencing technical decisions and driving integration of complex systems at scale
- Define and implement operational excellence standards across multiple teams, establishing best practices for system observability, reliability, and incident management
- Drive technological innovation at scale by evaluating emerging technologies and architectural patterns, making strategic recommendations that provide competitive advantages
- Influence product and technical roadmaps beyond immediate team boundaries, ensuring technical decisions support broader organizational goals
- Lead resolution for critical production issues, establishing processes to prevent future occurrences
A day in the life
* Write/review code, lead design discussions, and ultimately deploy robust and high impact services.
* Work with stakeholders to find and implement solutions
* Mentor junior engineers, raise the team's engineering practice bar, and help build/grow the team.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Experience in Ads technology and product
- Experience in building and integrating with high-scale services
- Knowledge of software development methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in a developer role
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience with building accounting automation services
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
**Description**
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
Job Description
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!
We are looking for you to join our team as a **Staff Software Engineer (Software Architect)** based out of Woodland Hills, CA. As a **Staff Software Engineer (Software Architect)** at Northrop Grumman, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of innovation.
For this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to:
+ Provide technical leadership for a team of software engineers
+ Architect/rearchitect and develop software utilizing C/C++ to modernize and productionize a research codebase
+ Identify and define software infrastructure to support CI/CD, software metrics collection, and MLOps
+ Design software-systems, applications, and architectures that implement techniques to support achieving increased modularity, scalability, and reliability, while also maintaining precision, accuracy, and speed to meet performance requirements
+ Ensure industry software engineering best practices and standards are applied and maintained
+ Apply your research and development skills to architect real-world products and capabilities well beyond the purely academic or theoretical
+ Present your ideas to internal and external groups; lead proposal activities; and represent Northrop Grumman at technical conferences and working groups
+ Work closely with Software Leads to define program intent, system capabilities, and output requirements
**Basic Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of relative experience; Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 10+ years of relative experience; PhD + 8 years of relative experience
+ **Active Top Secret security clearance**
+ **Ability to meet customer-specific security screening requirements within a timeframe set forth by management**
+ **Willingness and ability to work onsite full-time**
+ Experience working in C/C++ Demonstrated experience with open software/system architecture solutions
+ Demonstrated ability to analyze system requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
+ Proven ability to design and code new software, as well as modify existing software to add new features
+ 1 or more years of experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost and achieving all requirements
+ 1 or more years of demonstrated success leading teams through the entire development lifecycle
+ Proven experience presenting complex topics to management and other stakeholders.
+ Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
+ Experience with Git-based or other software configuration management tools
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain a strategic product roadmap, aligning software engineering best practices with business objectives
+ Ability to define technical strategy to modernize/productionize research code
+ Experience with model-based system engineering tools (Cameo)
+ Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
+ Experience with Linux operating systems
+ Experience with CUDA and GPUs
+ Experience with high performance numerical/scientific computing, parallel computing
+ Experience with developing for SWaP-constrained environments
+ Experience with MLOps and integrating ML models into production code
+ Familiarity with signal-processing algorithms
+ Familiarity with Agile lifecycle process including Scrum, CI/CD, and DevSecOps
This position is contingent upon clearance and Special Program Access.
Primary Level Salary Range: $171,000.00 - $256,400.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

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• Defining the overall technical vision and architecture for our client's software products.
• Leading the design and development of microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Making critical technology choices, including programming languages, frameworks, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ensuring adherence to architectural best practices, coding standards, and security protocols.
• Mentoring and guiding software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Evaluating and integrating new technologies to enhance product capabilities and efficiency.
• Identifying and addressing technical debt, and planning for system scalability and maintainability.
• Conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback to engineering teams.
• Staying abreast of industry trends and advancements in software architecture and development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 4 years in a software architect role.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, C#).
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture).
• Experience with database design and management (SQL and NoSQL).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience designing scalable and fault-tolerant systems.

This hybrid role offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work on challenging projects in a collaborative environment. You will have the flexibility to balance remote work with in-office collaboration at our **Los Angeles, California, US** headquarters.

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• Defining and evolving the overall software architecture strategy and technical vision for the organization.
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• Leading the technical design and implementation of complex, distributed systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Evaluating and recommending new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance our technology stack.
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