Amazon
Software Development Engineer II
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years of large-scale software development and 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
Designs and operates highly available backend services, APIs, and host agents that distribute credentials and certificates across AWS’s internal fleet.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain credential-distribution services and operational tooling, including AI-assisted tools for triage and remediation.
- Lead migrations that modernize credential storage and delivery while preserving backward compatibility.
- Improve reliability through design reviews, monitoring, incident response, and permanent fixes.
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.
- 1+ years of experience developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years 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.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Rust, C++, Python, C#, Perl
AI focus
Build AI-agent-driven operational tooling, including agentic coding tools for triage and remediation; use AI-assisted engineering tools for coding and operational triage.
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