Amazon
Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Transfer Family
$144K–$194K
Boston, MA · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years system design or architecture; 1+ year software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ year Object Oriented Design. Preferred: 3+ years full software development life cycle.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field. Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop and improve AWS Transfer Family, a managed file-transfer service, by building customer features, scaling performance, analyzing data, and resolving distributed-systems issues.
What you'll do
- Design and write code for customer-facing features and performance optimizations.
- Analyze data to inform design decisions and assess changes; debug complex distributed-systems issues.
- Review proposals and code from colleagues and partner teams.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of experience developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; and at least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming in at least one software language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life-cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Kiro, Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, Kiro, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
AI focus
Preferred experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate data analysis, software design, implementation, review, and investigation.
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