Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, AWS WorkSpaces, AWS WorkSpaces Control Plane Backend
$144K–$224K
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Build and operate Amazon WorkSpaces software features across their lifecycle, improving cloud desktop provisioning, reliability, and customer experience.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and deploy maintainable WorkSpaces features.
- Collaborate across AWS to define customer-focused technical solutions and address operational issues.
- Coach engineers and evaluate technologies to improve platform scalability, security, and developer productivity.
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
USD 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 annually (base salary); USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS
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