Amazon
Sr Software Engineer, AWS Managed Backend Services
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in software development, programming, and design or architecture; 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build a new AWS managed backend platform that unifies database, authentication, and related services, with an AI-native developer experience.
What you'll do
- Design and build a scalable, multi-tenant control plane for backend resource provisioning and management across regions.
- Develop managed database, storage, authentication, and authorization capabilities.
- Lead engineering projects and design reviews, mentor engineers, and shape AI-oriented SDKs, CLI tools, and agent workflows.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading the 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 delivering complex software systems to customers.
Nice to have
- 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Rust, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, MCP
AI focus
Define how AI coding assistants, autonomous agents, and MCP-based toolchains use the platform; AI agents also support the team's engineering workflow by drafting code and tests, outlining design documents, triaging operational issues, and drafting runbooks.
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