Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Global Accelerator

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Global Accelerator team is seeking experienced full‑stack software development engineers to build features for a globally distributed service. You will own design decisions, engage with other AWS service owners, and deliver new capabilities to customers at scale.

You will collaborate across teams to ensure security, availability, and performance. The role involves hands‑on coding, reviews, and mentoring engineers, while growing a global system used in 29 AWS regions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years in design/architecture of new or existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Define, scope, design, develop and ship features for AWS Global Accelerator.
• Make critical design decisions affecting multiple AWS services.
• Design and architect new systems or infrastructure, owning technical direction.
• Mentor and guide team members, conduct design reviews, raise the engineering bar.
• Drive strategic initiatives to improve security posture and availability at scale.
• Participate in hands-on development and rigorous code reviews.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code meeting production standards for performance, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align product roadmap with customer needs.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System architecture

Mentorship/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

The AWS Global Accelerator is a Software Defined Networking service which improves network performance for a range of products including AAA video games, video streaming platforms, VOIP, Education and technology platforms, and social media applications. Our technology powers features for AWS services such as S3 and AWS VPN.

Our collaborative and inclusive team is looking for experienced, passionate, full-stack software development engineers. As a member of the Global Accelerator team, you will be creating new features for our globally distributed network offering running in 29 AWS Commercial regions today. You will have opportunities to engage with AWS customers, engage with other AWS service owners, propose and document new ideas to the team, and best of all develop and deliver new features to the delight of our customers.

If you are passionate about distributed systems, writing clean code, constant learning, and invigorated to work on a platform that runs critical internet workloads for AWS and its customers you should apply for this role. You will become an important part of running our global software defined networking service and learn what it takes to grow and operate a global business as AWS scale.

As part of the AWS Global Accelerator team, you will:

• Own defining, scoping, designing, developing and shipping features for a highly impactful AWS service.
• Make critical design decisions that impact across various AWS services.
• Learn what it takes to grow and operate a global business at large scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive the big ideas to improve availability and performance of AGA Control Plane - Public facing APIs, provisioning workflows and integration with other AWS services.
• Design and architect new systems from scratch or enhance existing infrastructure, owning the technical direction from conception through deployment.
• Define system requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and make critical architectural decisions that impact CloudFront's global infrastructure.
• Mentor and guide team members in solving complex technical challenges with elegant, scalable solutions. Conduct design reviews, provide technical coaching, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Drive strategic initiatives to improve security posture and availability of Global Accelerator's infrastructure. Identify systemic risks, propose innovative solutions, and lead cross-team efforts to implement improvements at scale.
• Participate actively in both hands‑on development and rigorous code reviews.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code while ensuring team output meets production standards for performance, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Global Accelerator to align product roadmap with business priorities and customer needs.

About the team

AWS Global Accelerator Control Plane team owns defining, designing and maintaining all the customer facing and internal APIs for the AWS Global Accelerator service. We manage our customer defined configuration and securely synchronize their configuration data around the world in seconds to ensure their applications are always responsive.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually