Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, AWS WorkSpaces, AWS WorkSpaces Control Plane Backend
$144K–$194K
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship system design or architecture experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate features for Amazon WorkSpaces, a cloud desktop service, across the software development lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and deploy maintainable WorkSpaces software features.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AWS partners on customer-focused technical solutions.
- Diagnose operational issues and drive fixes that improve reliability and performance; coach engineers through reviews and design discussions.
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 of new and existing systems.
- 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; experience contributing to architecture and design of new and current systems.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
The team builds next-generation cloud desktop experiences within AWS Applied AI Solutions; the listed role responsibilities do not specify AI development work.
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