Amazon
Software Development Engineer III, AWS Transactional Services (Database & Distributed Systems)
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in the specified software development, programming, and design or architecture areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Leads the design, delivery, and operation of highly available, low-latency distributed log and database systems that underpin critical AWS services.
What you'll do
- Own complex engineering problems end to end, from defining technical approaches through production delivery.
- Set architecture and technical direction, balancing performance, durability, availability, and operational simplicity.
- Coordinate with partner teams and mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; experience debugging, profiling, and applying engineering practices in large-scale systems.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience with a modern language such as Java, C++, or C# and object-oriented design.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, C#
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