Software Development Engineer, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Amazon· Software Development
Santa Clara$165.2k - $223.6kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is a disaster recovery service by AWS that enables fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications. The role involves full software development life cycle responsibilities, designing highly available, scalable, and secure systems, and contributing to product strategy and engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- As a key member of the engineering team, influence product strategy, define features, refine architecture, and set best practices for a quality product.
- Design and implement solutions meeting high availability, performance, and security requirements; lay the foundation for future product growth.
- Participate in product definition, architecture reviews, iterative development, and code reviews.
- Develop automation testing for CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide technical leadership in scalable and robust solution design and implementation.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
- Mentor team members on technologies and best practices.
- Collaborate with business and technical partners through verbal and written communication.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, scaling)
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications 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 related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Skills
Required:Software DevelopmentSystem Design & ArchitectureProgramming Languages
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP
- Mental Health Support
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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