Architect the Invisible Infrastructure: Lead Engineers Building the Serverless Future, AWS Lambda
Amazon · Seattle, WA
$184,900–$250,200from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An engineering management role focused on the core data plane systems behind AWS Lambda's serverless auto-scaling infrastructure. The manager leads a software engineering team responsible for maintaining high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance at massive scale, while also driving architectural decisions and extending Lambda's capabilities to new use cases. Suits experienced engineering leaders with a background in distributed systems and multi-tier web services.
Senior level · 7+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $219,401 (middle half $175,322–$306,147). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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The role is a people-management position with explicit responsibilities for hiring, mentoring, and leading a team of software engineers — classified as Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021). The alt SOC 15-1252 is noted because the JD also emphasizes hands-on architectural and technical design work.
The title 'Engineering Manager' carries no explicit seniority level word (Junior/Senior/Staff/etc.), so the title states no level.
The 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams is used as the overall years minimum, as it is the broadest role-level experience gate. The 3+ years of management and 3+ years of architecture/design are captured as skill-level requirements; the 8+ years of multi-tier web services is also a named-scope gate captured as a skill.
No specific named technologies (languages, frameworks, cloud services) are hard-gated in the Basic Qualifications. AWS and AWS Lambda appear only in the role narrative/context, so they are marked preferred.
The JD lists 'knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations' as a required qualification — concrete sub-practices (code review, source control, CI/CD) are extracted as required skills; generic concepts (SDLC, coding standards, testing) are omitted per schema rules.
Compensation is quoted as an annual base salary range for Seattle, WA; sign-on payments and RSUs are also mentioned but not quantified.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): engineering team management, systems architecture, multi-tier web services.
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