Software Development Engineer, AWS Network Data Management and Research at Amazon
Seattle, WA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within AWS's network monitoring and data engineering space, where the work centers on building and operating large-scale systems that ingest, process, and analyze telemetry data from millions of network devices. The team uses this data to drive near-real-time automated recovery and network performance insights. It suits engineers with distributed systems experience who are comfortable working across broad data sources and solving problems at significant scale.
Mid level · 3+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,200 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,400–5,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). 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 Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The two hard gates in Basic Qualifications are stated at the role level (3+ years of full SDLC experience; 2+ years of design/architecture experience) rather than against specific named technologies, so they are captured as the overall years minimum and a general design requirement rather than tool-specific skills.
Kafka, Spark, and EMR appear together as interchangeable examples of data-streaming/OLAP technologies under Preferred Qualifications — listed as a single skill with alternatives accordingly.
A Master's degree in computer science is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The role title is plain 'Software Development Engineer' with no level modifier, so the title states no level. The Basic Qualifications gate on only 3 years of SDLC and 2 years of design experience, supporting a Mid-level classification despite the big-data and distributed-systems framing.
The alt SOC (15-1243 Database Architects) reflects the significant data pipeline, ingestion, and streaming architecture responsibilities described in the team mission, though the primary day-to-day work is software development.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development lifecycle, system design.
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