Senior Software Engineer, ECS Control Plane - Scale & AI

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

Job summary

Amazon ECS in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the ECS Control Plane team to build scalable container solutions on AWS. You will help customers run containerized microservices with speed and reliability.

You’ll collaborate with cross‑disciplinary Amazonians, design for large distributed systems, and contribute to ML/AI workloads on ECS. The role emphasizes fast delivery, robust architecture, and high‑quality software in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• Experience programming with at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products to market.
• Design and build technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at scale.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Skills

Software dev experience

System design/architecture

Programming language experience

Full SDLC experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon ECS in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the ECS Control Plane team to build scalable container solutions on AWS. You will help customers run containerized microservices with speed and reliability.

You’ll collaborate with cross‑disciplinary Amazonians, design for large distributed systems, and contribute to ML/AI workloads on ECS. The role emphasizes fast delivery, robust architecture, and high‑quality software in an agile environment.