SDE II - ECS Developer Platform (API & IaC)

Amazon.com Services LLC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate the API and IaC surfaces for ECS. You will use Java, TypeScript, and Go across CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform, collaborating with backend teams to ship features with strong developer surface coverage.

You will contribute to internal tooling, participate in design reviews, and drive reliability through oncall rotations and post-mortems, shaping ECS customer interactions for years to come.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for large-scale systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and build customer-facing API endpoints and IaC resource providers (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) so that every new ECS capability ships with full developer surface coverage on launch day.
• Collaborate with ECS backend pillar teams and AWS IaC teams to co-design API contracts, resource models, and release plans for new features.
• Own internal platform tooling - feature flag systems, automated testing pipelines, and deployment safety mechanisms - that the entire ECS engineering organization depends on to ship quickly and reliably.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor fellow engineers, and author API and IaC design documents that define the developer experience for hundreds of thousands of AWS customers.
• Investigate operational issues through oncall rotations and root cause analysis, driving permanent fixes that improve the reliability and performance of the API and IaC fleet.

Skills

3+ years professional software

2+ years design/architecture

1+ years SDE experience

1+ years OO design

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/数学

Experience programming any language

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate the API and IaC surfaces for ECS. You will use Java, TypeScript, and Go across CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform, collaborating with backend teams to ship features with strong developer surface coverage.

You will contribute to internal tooling, participate in design reviews, and drive reliability through oncall rotations and post-mortems, shaping ECS customer interactions for years to come.