Senior Platform Architect – S3 Deployment & Observability

Amazon.com Services LLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC’s S3 Foundations team seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to set the technical direction for deployment, validation, and observability systems that support S3 worldwide.

You will lead architecture across large-scale distributed systems, drive modernization, and champion AI-enabled tooling. Mentorship, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration are essential.

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.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for, and design, build, and operate, distributed systems that deploy software to one of the largest server fleets in the world - identifying one-way door decisions and mitigating long-term architectural risk.
• Lead the modernization of legacy services at massive scale, owning designs end-to-end and delivering them through a team of engineers, with outsized impact on AWS's cost, performance, and operations.
• Architect validation, deployment, and observability platforms that make engineers across S3's front-end organization measurably faster and safer.
• Raise the engineering bar as a force multiplier: lead design reviews, drive adoption of engineering and operational best practices, and actively mentor and develop engineers on the team.
• Influence technical strategy across multiple S3 teams, partnering with senior engineers, Principal Engineers, and leaders to coordinate feature validation and delivery for S3's front-end organization.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Mentoring

Design/Architecture

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC’s S3 Foundations team seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to set the technical direction for deployment, validation, and observability systems that support S3 worldwide.

You will lead architecture across large-scale distributed systems, drive modernization, and champion AI-enabled tooling. Mentorship, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration are essential.