Amazon
Software Development Engineer, ElastiCache
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jun 4, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years in software development engineering or a related occupation; 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate Amazon ElastiCache’s highly available, scalable in-memory distributed database platform and its supporting services.
What you'll do
- Design and develop distributed in-memory storage systems and platform capabilities for scaling, monitoring, recovery, and backup.
- Build and operate HTTP/REST services, messaging systems, and failure detection and auto-remediation workflows.
- Lead technical work through design reviews, operational improvements, and mentoring junior engineers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl, plus 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ 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.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C/C++, C#, Perl, Redis, Memcached, HTTP/REST
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