← All roles

Software Development Engineer, AWS Central SDE Team

Amazon· Software Development
Apply on company site
Arlington, VA, Santa Clara, CA, Seattle, WA$165.2k - $223.6kfull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

AWS central SDE hiring program recruiting for anticipated 2026 SDE roles across AWS, including teams such as Twitch, AWS Elemental, and AWS CloudFront.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
  • Implement complex software solutions that meet business requirements
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and bugs
  • Participate in architecture and design reviews to provide technical guidance
  • Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for process enhancement
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to building a strong engineering culture
  • Start your morning with a team stand-up to align on priorities and blockers
  • Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements for upcoming features
  • Write code and develop solutions for complex technical challenges
  • Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
  • Participate in design discussions for new services or features
  • Debug and troubleshoot production issues
  • Attend learning sessions to stay current with AWS technologies
  • Document your work and contribute to technical specifications
  • Engage with customers or internal stakeholders to understand needs

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 DesignObject Oriented Design

Benefits

  • health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
  • Mental Health Support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • par3ental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates

liquid-ai-recruiting-target
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Amazon