Senior Software Engineer, Scalable Systems & Leadership

Amazon.com Services LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale software systems. You will guide architectural decisions, balance performance with maintainability, and mentor engineers across multiple projects.

You will tackle ambiguous problems, work across the full software lifecycle, and drive adoption of best practices to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable services that impact millions of customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Proficient in at least one programming language and strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of multi-engineer software projects and own the architectural direction.
• Collaborate to define technology strategy balancing short-term needs and long-term extensibility.
• Write exemplary code and promote engineering best practices across the team.
• Mentor and coach engineers to strengthen team capability and career development.
• Design and maintain operational excellence including alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Software design

Architectural direction

Mentoring

Code quality

Problem solving

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale software systems. You will guide architectural decisions, balance performance with maintainability, and mentor engineers across multiple projects.

You will tackle ambiguous problems, work across the full software lifecycle, and drive adoption of best practices to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable services that impact millions of customers.