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Software Development Engineer, AWS Lambda EDA

Amazon· Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
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Seattle$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Engineer role within AWS Lambda focusing on event-driven architecture and integration with streaming/messaging services to enable scalable, multi-tenant processing of billions of events for AWS customers.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain distributed systems that power AWS Lambda's event-driven architecture — connecting Lambda to streaming and messaging services like Kafka, SQS, DynamoDB Streams, and Kinesis
  • Build and improve scalable, multi-tenant platforms that process billions of events daily for millions of AWS customers
  • Write clean, well-tested code with high operational standards — you'll own what you build, from design through deployment and production operations
  • Drive features end-to-end: define technical approach, navigate cross-team dependencies, and deliver with high quality from design through multi-region rollout
  • Identify and solve ambiguous problems — propose solutions, evaluate tradeoffs, and make sound technical decisions with increasing independence
  • Participate in on-call rotations, lead operational reviews, and raise the bar on production reliability for your team's services
  • Contribute to system design, mentor junior engineers, and influence team best practices through code reviews and design discussions
  • Work across the full development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 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, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

Required:Software developmentSystem design / architectureObject Oriented Design

Benefits

  • health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • 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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