Senior SDE: Architect AI-Driven Distributed Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of distributed systems processing petabyte-scale data daily.

You will influence AWS leadership decisions and deliver AI-powered analytics at scale. You will collaborate with data engineers, scientists, product managers, and business analysts to build scalable platforms, real-time dashboards, and robust services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture of large-scale systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years designing and developing large-scale distributed software applications using languages such as C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve system architecture for scalable, secure distributed systems.
• Drive architectural decisions for petabyte-scale data processing.
• Build multi-agent AI systems with orchestration frameworks and tool integrations.
• Create reusable components, APIs, and micro-services adopted across teams.
• Drive platform capabilities end-to-end from concept to deployment and operation.
• Solve complex ambiguous problems and deliver innovative solutions.
• Influence technical direction and mentor engineers across teams.
• Maintain operational health of production systems.
• Innovate with GenAI, LLM, and ML advancements.

Skills

Software development

System design

Distributed systems

OO design

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of distributed systems processing petabyte-scale data daily.

You will influence AWS leadership decisions and deliver AI-powered analytics at scale. You will collaborate with data engineers, scientists, product managers, and business analysts to build scalable platforms, real-time dashboards, and robust services.