Senior SDE: AWS Forward Deployed Engineering Leader

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a customer-obsessed Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE 3) to join the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team in New York.

You will own team-level architecture, drive technical strategy, and deliver scalable, production-ready software and infrastructure for customer integrations. The role emphasizes strong system design skills, DevOps practices, and mentoring engineers, with occasional travel to customer sites (~20%).

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.
• Hands on experience with generative AI technology.

Responsibilities

• Own team-level architecture, providing system-wide design guidance and ensuring solutions are well-designed, extensible, performant, and secure
• Lead projects requiring the work of multiple engineers; drive technical strategy and make one-way-door technical decisions with sound judgment
• Design and deliver working software systems spanning the full lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Set and drive adoption of engineering best practices on the team — code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, documentation, and operations
• Solve complex problems with multiple risks and roadblocks using solutions that are as simple as possible; clearly explain problems to others in simple, concise terms
• Balance speed of delivery with long-term architectural requirements; proactively simplify code and resolve architecture deficiencies
• Build consensus across the team and related teams when confronted with differing technical viewpoints
• Actively coach and mentor multiple engineers; grow the team through recruiting, assessing, and providing career guidance
• Communicate technical designs and decisions effectively in writing for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ensure your team has strong operational practices: alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective/COE processes
• Obtain/maintain AWS Certifications
• Occasional travel to customer sites (~20%)

Skills

5+ years of non-internship profesional

5+ years of programming with at least

5+ years of leading design or архитект

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Hands on experience with generative AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a customer-obsessed Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE 3) to join the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team in New York.

You will own team-level architecture, drive technical strategy, and deliver scalable, production-ready software and infrastructure for customer integrations. The role emphasizes strong system design skills, DevOps practices, and mentoring engineers, with occasional travel to customer sites (~20%).