Software Development Engineer II, AWS WorkSpaces, AWS WorkSpaces Control Plane Backend

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Agentic WorkSpaces team. You will own features end-to-end—from design through development, testing, deployment, and operations—on the AWS WorkSpaces platform.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable desktop-as-a-service experiences for customers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy software features across the full development lifecycle for Amazon WorkSpaces, producing high-quality, maintainable code that others on the team can extend.

Job description

Job ID: 10553627 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

The Agentic WorkSpaces team within AWS Applied AI Solutions is building the next generation of cloud desktop experiences used by organizations worldwide. Amazon WorkSpaces delivers fully managed Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions from the AWS Cloud, enabling customers to provision secure, high-quality cloud desktops accessible from any device. Our team tackles complex distributed systems challenges to bring a native desktop experience to modern form factors while making provisioning and management simple and cost-effective for IT administrators.

As a Software Development Engineer on the Agentic WorkSpaces team, you will own features end-to-end, from design through development, testing, deployment, and operations. You will work closely with senior technical leaders within the team and across AWS, contributing to platform services, system-level components, and the layers in between. If you enjoy solving meaningful technical problems in scalable systems and care about the real-world impact your software has on customers, this is the role for you.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy software features across the full development lifecycle for Amazon WorkSpaces, producing high-quality, maintainable code that others on the team can extend.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners across AWS to define technical solutions that address customer needs and align with long‑term architectural strategy.
• Identify root causes of operational issues and drive permanent fixes that continuously improve system reliability and performance.
• Coach other engineers through code reviews and design discussions, sharing knowledge that raises the technical bar across the team.
• Evaluate new technologies and approaches, recommending adoption where appropriate to improve scalability, security, or developer productivity within the WorkSpaces platform.

A day in the life

You start your morning reviewing deployment metrics from a feature you shipped earlier in the week, then join a design discussion with teammates about a new provisioning workflow. After lunch, you pair with a colleague on a tricky integration test, provide feedback on a code review, and wrap up by documenting an architectural decision for the team wiki. Your work spans the full stack, and you regularly interact with product managers and partner teams to ensure what you build solves real customer problems.

About the team

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