Senior Cloud Software Engineer Tech Lead - Flexible Hours

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s AWS team in Seattle is hiring senior software engineers to design and implement scalable, serverless solutions across platforms. You will work in an agile environment, tackling broadly defined problems and delivering high-quality software with a strong customer focus.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on software development, leadership in design or architecture, and experience mentoring engineers. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and impact across teams.

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 (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
• Be creative, responsible, and able to dive deep into emerging serverless AWS technologies.
• Think about business opportunities, operational issues, architectural diagrams, scalability, security, and the customer perspective in the course of a single conversation.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System design & architecture

Mentoring / Tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon’s AWS team in Seattle is hiring senior software engineers to design and implement scalable, serverless solutions across platforms. You will work in an agile environment, tackling broadly defined problems and delivering high-quality software with a strong customer focus.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on software development, leadership in design or architecture, and experience mentoring engineers. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and impact across teams.