Senior Cloud-Native SDE Lead: Architecture & Strategy

Amazon

Arlington (VA)

On-site

USD 185,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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