Software Engineer II, AWS Field Experience

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to help design and build distributed cloud systems powering our global services. You will contribute to full‑stack development of the user experience for this service and work on backend APIs using Lambda, DynamoDB, and infrastructure tools.

The team emphasizes strong CS fundamentals, learning new technologies, and mentorship, with a culture focused on operational excellence and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
• 2+ years contributing to new and current systems architecture and design.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement fault‑tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees
• Dive into complex architectures, research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance
• Design and implement systems that will help our service achieve 3x the current scale within the next 2 years
• Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service leveraging well documented operational excellence (OE) techniques

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to help design and build distributed cloud systems powering our global services. You will contribute to full‑stack development of the user experience for this service and work on backend APIs using Lambda, DynamoDB, and infrastructure tools.

The team emphasizes strong CS fundamentals, learning new technologies, and mentorship, with a culture focused on operational excellence and scalable architectures.