Software Engineer II, ECS Developer Platforms — API & IaC

Amazon; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Jersey City, NJ, is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to strengthen the ECS Developer Platforms team. You will design and implement customer-facing API surfaces and IaC tooling across CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform, collaborating with backend teams to deliver scalable, reliable services.

You should have 3+ years of professional software development and experience with Java or C++/C#. The role offers strong ownership, a collaborative culture, and the opportunity to shape

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered software applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build customer-facing API endpoints and IaC resource providers (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform).
• Collaborate with ECS backend teams to co-design API contracts and release plans.
• Own internal platform tooling, including feature flags and automated testing pipelines.
• Participate in code reviews and write API/IaC design documents.
• Investigate operational issues and drive permanent fixes for reliability and performance.

Skills

Software development

Java

C++

C#

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Job description

Amazon in Jersey City, NJ, is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to strengthen the ECS Developer Platforms team. You will design and implement customer-facing API surfaces and IaC tooling across CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform, collaborating with backend teams to deliver scalable, reliable services.

You should have 3+ years of professional software development and experience with Java or C++/C#. The role offers strong ownership, a collaborative culture, and the opportunity to shape