Senior Software Engineer - AWS EC2, Blackfoot Endpoints
Amazon· Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Seattle, WA$168.1k - $227.4kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Engineer on EC2 Networking team focused on building and owning features for EC2 infrastructure. Hands-on software development with mentoring responsibilities, architecture decisions, and collaboration across AWS to deliver scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Being an engineer on a small team, mentoring junior engineers, ensuring the right development practices are followed.
- Being very hands-on; working with the engineering team to manage the day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
- Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on the look out for new technologies and working with management and development team in bringing new technologies.
- Communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- A day in the life: hands-on work including architecture and design decisions, code reviews, implementation, project planning, and operations activities; frequent communication with external teams and AWS customers.
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 developmentArchitecture design / design patternsMentorship / technical leadership
Benefits
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in package.
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D with optional 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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