SDE II - Cloud Gaming Infrastructure & Fleet Scaling

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

Job summary

Amazon Luna is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join the SIPS team, building and operating distributed services for provisioning and managing Luna's compute fleet.

You will tackle fleet scaling, capacity provisioning, and workload placement across regions, while improving GPU utilization and platform reliability. This role offers end-to-end ownership, collaboration with Luna and AWS teams, and opportunities to mentor others.

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.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate distributed services that power Luna's streaming infrastructure and provisioning platform.
• Build and improve systems for automated capacity provisioning, fleet scaling, instance lifecycle management, and workload placement across AWS regions.
• Develop solutions that improve GPU and compute utilization while maintaining high availability, performance, and customer experience.
• Own features and services end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and production operations.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues spanning distributed services, EC2 infrastructure, networking, and GPU environments.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, observability, and operational efficiency of SIPS services and reduce manual operational work through automation.
• Work closely with engineers across Luna and AWS to support new game launches, infrastructure capabilities, instance types, and regional expansion.
• Participate in design and code reviews, contribute to technical decisions, and help improve engineering standards and development practices across the team.
• Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge, and contribute to a strong engineering and operational culture.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

OOP design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng/Math

Job description

Amazon Luna is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join the SIPS team, building and operating distributed services for provisioning and managing Luna's compute fleet.

You will tackle fleet scaling, capacity provisioning, and workload placement across regions, while improving GPU utilization and platform reliability. This role offers end-to-end ownership, collaboration with Luna and AWS teams, and opportunities to mentor others.