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Software Development Engineer, AWS Lambda

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Seattle, WA$168.1k - $227.4kPosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior engineer role focusing on leading the data plane architecture and design for AWS Lambda at large scale, shaping performance, reliability, and new serverless compute capabilities across regions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and design of large-scale, highly available, low-latency data plane systems that handle customer traffic across AWS Regions
  • Set technical direction across teams, balancing near-term delivery with long-term architecture, and influence the Lambda roadmap
  • Own complex, ambiguous problems end to end, from customer need to design, implementation, deployment, and operations
  • Drive major improvements in invoke latency, scaling speed, efficiency, security, and resilience
  • Help define and deliver new serverless compute experiences for web, event-driven, and instance-based workloads
  • Mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, and raise the engineering bar across the organization
  • Lead operational excellence: set standards for observability, deployment safety, and incident response, and drive lasting fixes
  • Work with product managers, engineering leaders, and partner AWS teams to deliver results for customers
  • A day in the life – design reviews, tail-latency investigation, mentoring, using customer feedback and production metrics to shape Lambda evolution

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Skills

Required:Software developmentProgramming languages
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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