Senior Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Spot at Amazon
Seattle, WA
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Jul 15, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role on AWS's EC2 Spot team, focused on designing and building large-scale distributed systems that govern capacity allocation, dynamic pricing, and demand-shaping for Spot Instances. The work involves translating ambiguous business and economic problems into production-ready technical solutions, in close collaboration with economists, scientists, and product managers. Strong candidates will have a track record of technical leadership, hands-on coding, and mentoring engineers on complex systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Full-time
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No work location is specified in the posting — the role is on the EC2 Spot team at AWS, which is headquartered in Seattle, WA, but no city or remote status is stated. Location fields left blank.
The Basic Qualifications gate on 5+ years of professional software development experience and 5+ years of architecture/design leadership, plus mentoring/tech-lead experience — but name no specific programming language, framework, or tool. No concrete named technologies appear anywhere in the posting as hard requirements.
The only named technology skill in the posting is econometrics (program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data), listed exclusively under Preferred Qualifications.
Because the JD names no specific programming language, cloud service, or tooling as a requirement, the skills list is minimal. The role is clearly a Senior SDE position at AWS working on distributed, high-availability systems at scale, but the posting deliberately avoids specifying a stack.
No compensation figures are provided.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development, system design.
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