Software Development Engineer, Amazon Cloud Management Foundations at Amazon
Seattle, WA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level software engineering role focused on building and maintaining the control plane infrastructure that manages AWS account creation, governance, and decommissioning at Amazon scale. Day-to-day work spans distributed systems design, production operations, on-call responsibilities, and cross-team collaboration with security and infrastructure partners. Suits engineers with a background in large-scale distributed systems who are comfortable owning both technical architecture and operational reliability.
Mid level · 3+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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The role is titled 'Software Development Engineer II', which maps to a level-II (Mid) band at Amazon — both advertised and required seniority align at Mid despite the mentoring responsibility, which is common at SDE II.
Basic Qualifications are extremely thin on named technologies: the JD requires only 'at least one software programming language' with no specific language named, and 'design or architecture' experience — no concrete stack is mandated.
AWS exposure and full SDLC practices (code reviews, source control, testing, operations) appear only under Preferred Qualifications, so they are not hard gates.
The role involves on-call rotations and operational ownership of production distributed systems, which is consistent with a Mid-level SDE II scope at Amazon.
Compensation is quoted as a base salary range of $143,700–$194,400 annually, with additional sign-on payments and RSUs noted but not quantified.
A Bachelor's degree in computer science is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, and the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent' experience — so no degree is hard-required.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): system design.
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