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Amazon

Software Development Engineer II, Lightsail

$144K–$194K

Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026

Experience
3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of specified 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

Build and operate Amazon Lightsail features and services that simplify cloud compute, storage, networking, and hosting for customers.

What you'll do

  • Design and build backend and frontend features for Lightsail distributed systems.
  • Integrate Lightsail capabilities with AWS partner services and maintain the operational health of services.
  • Participate in design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and evaluate technologies to improve productivity and solution quality.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience and 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
  • 1+ years 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.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Pay

143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Java, Go, JavaScript, React, C#, C++, Perl, Amazon DynamoDB

AI focus

Evaluate generative artificial intelligence tools to improve team productivity and the quality of solutions delivered to customers; the team is also adding agent hosting capabilities.

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