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Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Resilience, Incident Prevention

Seattle, WAOnsiteFull TimeSenior$168,100–$227,400 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • AWS
  • resilience
  • incident prevention
  • availability
  • AI
  • software architecture
  • developer tools
  • code reviews
  • deployment pipelines
  • dashboards

Nice to have

  • computer science degree
  • coding standards
  • source control management

Role summary

Senior Software Development Engineer on the AWS Incident Prevention team responsible for driving higher availability for AWS customers. This role involves owning products that help AWS service teams test and improve resilience, and building an intelligence layer to detect, prevent, and remediate failures before they become incidents. The engineer will own the technical architecture of AI-powered products, focusing on resilience testing and converting incident data into actionable insights. Key responsibilities include designing and building scalable products, collaborating with stakeholders, leading projects, making technical decisions, and mentoring engineers to foster operational excellence.

Join the team with a mission to drive higher availability for every AWS customer! As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the AWS Incident Prevention team, you'll own products that help thousands of AWS service teams test and improve their resilience posture, and build the next-generation intelligence layer that detects, prevents, and remediates failure modes before they become incidents—directly reducing the frequency and duration of operational events across all of AWS.

The team is is building a unified detection-to-mitigation experience that meets engineers where they are in the software development lifecycle. Pairing deep technical expertise with customer-focussed product intuition, you will own the the technical architecture of AI-powered products that orchestrate resilience testing and turn complex incident data into quality-gated resilience insights that drive action. You will work backwards from customers to own the ideation, design, and delivery of high-quality software while making high-judgment trade-offs across customer impact, software complexity, security and reliability, and engineering velocity. You will strengthen the culture of operational excellence on the team, and influence resilience practices across AWS teams.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable products that help AWS service teams test and improve resilience.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver intuitive customer experiences that help AWS service teams identify, prioritize, and address resilience risks.
- Lead projects across multiple engineers, make high-judgment one-way-door technical decisions.
- Own architecture for AI-native systems spanning agents, knowledge bases, and multi-step reasoning pipelines.
- Deliver developer tools that surface resilience context in code reviews, deployment pipelines, and dashboards.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for software quality and operational practices.
- Collaborate with partner teams in Amazon to invent and simplify software. Basic Qualifications: - 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team Preferred Qualifications: - 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.



USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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