Senior Lambda Data-Plane Engineer - Low-Latency, Scalable

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the AWS Lambda data plane. Lead architecture for fast, secure, distributed systems and influence Lambda roadmap. Role emphasizes ownership, reliability, and scalable solutions across AWS Regions.

Strong background in Rust/Java/C/C++ preferred and experience mentoring teams. As part of the Lambda data plane teams, you’ll drive performance improvements, operational excellence, and collaboration with product

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

• Lead the architecture and design of large‑scale, highly available, low‑latency data plane systems that handle customer traffic across AWS Regions.
• Set technical direction across teams, balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term architecture, and influence the Lambda roadmap.
• Own complex, ambiguous problems end to end, from customer need to design, implementation, deployment, and operations.
• Drive major improvements in invoke latency, scaling speed, efficiency, security, and resilience.
• Help define and deliver new serverless compute experiences for web, event‑driven, and instance‑based workloads.
• Mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, and raise the engineering bar across the organization.
• Lead operational excellence: set standards for observability, deployment safety, and incident response, and drive lasting fixes.
• Work with product managers, engineering leaders, and partner AWS teams to deliver results for customers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Low latency

Data plane

Mentorship

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Java

C/C++

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the AWS Lambda data plane. Lead architecture for fast, secure, distributed systems and influence Lambda roadmap. Role emphasizes ownership, reliability, and scalable solutions across AWS Regions.

Strong background in Rust/Java/C/C++ preferred and experience mentoring teams. As part of the Lambda data plane teams, you’ll drive performance improvements, operational excellence, and collaboration with product