Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Resilience, Incident Prevention
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three stated software development and architecture areas; mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Owns and builds AI-powered products and developer tools that help AWS teams test resilience, detect risks, and prevent or mitigate incidents.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable resilience products and intuitive tools across code reviews, deployment pipelines, and dashboards.
- Lead technical architecture and cross-engineer projects, including AI-native systems with agents, knowledge bases, and multi-step reasoning pipelines.
- Mentor engineers and improve software quality, operational practices, and resilience across AWS teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in at least one software programming language.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience developing, deploying, and managing AI products at scale.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
Own architecture for AI-native systems involving agents, knowledge bases, and multi-step reasoning pipelines; develop, deploy, and manage AI products at scale is preferred.
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