Platform Architect & Senior SDE – Scalable Game Backend

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Omni team in Seattle, WA. You will own large-scale distributed systems used by multiple games and partner teams, making long-term architectural decisions and driving reusable platform capabilities across the gaming ecosystem.

You will mentor engineers, lead architectural design across services, and partner with product and game studios to define roadmaps while taking ownership of production issues to prevent recurrence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops).
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed services supporting game and player experiences.
• Own significant technical areas within Omni, from architecture and design through implementation, launch, and operations.
• Work with game teams to understand requirements and translate them into reusable platform capabilities.
• Lead technical designs spanning multiple services and teams, weighing trade-offs around scalability and consistency.
• Establish APIs, data models, and service boundaries to evolve capabilities with onboarding of new games.
• Improve platform observability, automated recovery, deployment safety, capacity planning, and tooling.
• Identify architectural debt and drive investments to address it.
• Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring, and raising the engineering bar.
• Partner with product and studios to define technical roadmaps and influence platform direction.
• Take ownership during production issues and drive systemic improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Mentoring

Leadership

Game industry experience

Production issues ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Omni team in Seattle, WA. You will own large-scale distributed systems used by multiple games and partner teams, making long-term architectural decisions and driving reusable platform capabilities across the gaming ecosystem.

You will mentor engineers, lead architectural design across services, and partner with product and game studios to define roadmaps while taking ownership of production issues to prevent recurrence.