Central SDE: Cloud & Distributed Systems

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC, through AWS, is building a centralized SDE talent pipeline for 2026 across multiple AWS SDE disciplines and teams including Twitch, AWS Elemental, and CloudFront. This role targets design, development, and maintenance of high-quality software within a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

You will join a central SDE sourcing team that supports interviewing, role alignment, and ongoing candidate guidance across the AWS SDE spectrum, with opportunities to contribute

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Implement complex software solutions that meet business requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and bugs.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews to provide technical guidance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for process enhancement.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to building a strong engineering culture.

Skills

Software development

Design or architecture

OO design

Multi-threaded distributed systems

Programming languages (C++, Java, C#,/

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC, through AWS, is building a centralized SDE talent pipeline for 2026 across multiple AWS SDE disciplines and teams including Twitch, AWS Elemental, and CloudFront. This role targets design, development, and maintenance of high-quality software within a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

You will join a central SDE sourcing team that supports interviewing, role alignment, and ongoing candidate guidance across the AWS SDE spectrum, with opportunities to contribute