Senior Cloud-Native SDE Lead: Architecture & Strategy

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE 3) to join our AWS ProServe Engineering Services team. You will lead the design and delivery of cloud-native production-ready software and infrastructure that customers integrate into their offerings.

The ideal candidate will own team-level architecture, drive technical strategy, and mentor engineers, delivering scalable systems across the full software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Hands on experience with generative AI technology.
• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards and operations experience.
• Experience leading architecture and design of new/current systems, or influencing teams.
• AWS certification is preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Experience coordinating across multiple engineers on technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Own team-level architecture and provide system-wide design guidance.
• Lead projects requiring multiple engineers and drive technical strategy.
• Design and deliver software systems across the full lifecycle.
• Set and drive engineering best practices in code, docs, and operations.
• Solve complex problems with simple, clear communication.
• Balance delivery speed with long-term architectural needs.
• Build consensus across teams on differing viewpoints.
• Coach and mentor engineers and grow the team through recruiting and guidance.
• Communicate designs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ensure strong operational practices: alarms, telemetry, runbooks, COE processes.
• Obtain/maintain AWS Certifications.
• Occasional travel to customer sites (~20%).

Skills

Non-internship software development

Programming experience

Architecture leadership

Mentorship/tech lead

Bachelor's degree in CS

Generative AI experience

Full SDLC

Architecture design lead

AWS certification

CI/CD & DevOps

Cross-engineer coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Amazon in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE 3) to join our AWS ProServe Engineering Services team. You will lead the design and delivery of cloud-native production-ready software and infrastructure that customers integrate into their offerings.

The ideal candidate will own team-level architecture, drive technical strategy, and mentor engineers, delivering scalable systems across the full software lifecycle.