Software Development Engineer, AWS Resource Access Manager Team at Amazon
Herndon, VA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Aug 14, 2026
Herndon, VA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role on the AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) team, which handles cross-account and cross-organization resource sharing within AWS. The work centers on building and evolving distributed, multi-tenant backend infrastructure — including event-driven architectures, high-throughput resource indexing, API design, and asynchronous workflows — at cloud scale. Suited to engineers with experience designing reliable, highly available systems.
Mid level · 3+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20,100 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15,100–26,100
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting's Basic Qualifications are unusually thin: the only hard gates are 3+ years of professional software development experience, 2+ years of design/architecture experience, and proficiency in at least one programming language. No specific language, framework, or AWS service is named as a hard requirement.
A Bachelor's degree in computer science is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so the degree requirement is set to None.
AWS, API design, and event-driven architecture appear in the narrative/role-description sections rather than in a formal requirements block, so they are marked as preferred rather than required.
The role title carries no seniority level. The minimum experience gate (3+ years) and the scope described (contributing to a team-level service, not setting org-wide direction) align with a Mid-level band.
Compensation is quoted as a base salary range for the Arlington, VA location; the posting notes that sign-on payments and RSUs are also included but no figures are given for those components.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): system design, API design.
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