Senior Software Development Engineer , P&S Engineering Services

Amazon • New York, NY

6d • $184,900 - $250,200 • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a customer-obsessed Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE 3) to join our Engineering Services team. In this role you will lead the design and delivery of cloud-native production-ready software and infrastructure that our customers integrate into their own offerings. You'll own team-level architecture, drive technical strategy, and build the repeatable, scalable solutions that transform how ProServe delivers value — while conveying Amazon development practices to our customers.

The ideal candidate is a technical leader who loves to learn and invent. As members of AWS Professional Services, we are not stewards of a single AWS service but of the entire AWS platform — keeping abreast of the ever-widening stream of platform improvements and new services. The candidate should have strong system design and architecture skills, deep experience making software design and implementation trade-offs, and the ability to lead projects that span multiple engineers. Experience with modern cloud-native applications, distributed systems at scale, and DevOps practices are highly applicable.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Hands on experience with generative AI technology

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience leading and influencing your team or organization
• Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers
• Experience implementing AWS services
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices

Responsibilities

• Own team-level architecture, providing system-wide design guidance and ensuring solutions are well-designed, extensible, performant, and secure
• Lead projects requiring the work of multiple engineers; drive technical strategy and make one-way-door technical decisions with sound judgment
• Design and deliver working software systems spanning the full lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Set and drive adoption of engineering best practices on the team — code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, documentation, and operations
• Solve complex problems with multiple risks and roadblocks using solutions that are as simple as possible; clearly explain problems to others in simple, concise terms
• Balance speed of delivery with long-term architectural requirements; proactively simplify code and resolve architecture deficiencies
• Build consensus across the team and related teams when confronted with differing technical viewpoints
• Actively coach and mentor multiple engineers; grow the team through recruiting, assessing, and providing career guidance
• Communicate technical designs and decisions effectively in writing for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ensure your team has strong operational practices: alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective/COE processes
• Obtain/maintain AWS Certifications
• Occasional travel to customer sites (~20%)

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree