Amazon
Sr Software Development Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
$168K–$250K
Seattle, WA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the specified software development, programming, and design/architecture areas; preferred: 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads architecture and delivery of cloud-native software and infrastructure for customer offerings, while guiding engineering practices, technical strategy, and team development.
What you'll do
- Own team-level architecture and lead multi-engineer projects through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Set engineering and operational practices, make technical decisions, and coach and mentor engineers.
- Build scalable customer solutions and communicate designs and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
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 of leading system design or architecture, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; hands-on generative AI technology experience.
Nice to have
- 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- AWS certification; experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, or coordinating technical projects across multiple engineers.
Pay
184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD
AI focus
Hands-on experience with generative AI technology is required; the posting does not specify AI development duties.
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