Real-Time Streaming SDE — Build Kinesis-Scale Cloud Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is hiring an experienced Software Development Engineer to help build scalable cloud services.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine requirements, design architectures, and deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, cloud-first environment. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, code reviews, and mentoring teammates, with opportunities to work on distributed systems, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ 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

Responsibilities

• You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
• You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
• You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.
• You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
• You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).
• You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
• You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.)
• You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is hiring an experienced Software Development Engineer to help build scalable cloud services.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine requirements, design architectures, and deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, cloud-first environment. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, code reviews, and mentoring teammates, with opportunities to work on distributed systems, reliability, and security.