Amazon
Software Development Engineer - II, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
$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 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 the distributed control-plane systems behind AWS Elastic Load Balancing, managing load balancer fleets across AWS regions.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable distributed systems and deliver features from design through deployment and monitoring.
- Troubleshoot production issues, analyze root causes, and support system health through metrics monitoring and on-call rotations.
- Collaborate on technical designs and architecture, and mentor junior engineers through reviews and knowledge sharing.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
- 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
USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Application Load Balancers (ALB), Classic Load Balancers (CLB)
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