Drimva

Amazon

Software Development Engineer II

$144K–$194K

Herndon, VA · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 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 using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 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 reliable networking services that route production traffic for AWS Outposts deployments, while improving engineering and operational efficiency with AI agents and automation.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, test, and operate scalable control plane, distribution, and data plane services; own components through deployment and ongoing operations.
  • Improve reliability and observability, participate in on-call, and investigate and resolve production issues.
  • Build AI agents and automation to reduce routine engineering and operational work; collaborate across teams and mentor 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.
  • 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services 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, 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

C#, C++, Java, Perl, AWS Outposts, Local Gateway, S3, EBS

AI focus

Build and improve AI agents and automation to reduce repetitive software-development and operational work.

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First seen Oct 21, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)