Senior AWS Distributed Systems Engineer

Build highly available AWS control plane services using distributed systems expertise and software development leadership. Own foundational systems supporting major AWS services.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will build and operate control plane services for AWS Transactional Services. Your work supports lifecycle, placement, and metadata management for a distributed system handling hundreds of millions of operations per second. The position emphasizes scalability, availability, reliability, and end-to-end ownership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design scalable control plane services for distributed AWS systems
• Develop monitoring, automation, and operational tooling
• Improve service quality, reliability, and operational excellence
• Deliver features aligned with project commitments
• Mentor engineers and drive technology improvements

Requirements:

• Five-plus years of professional software development experience
• Five-plus years programming with at least one language
• Five-plus years leading system design or architecture
• Experience mentoring, tech leading, or leading teams
• Full software development lifecycle experience preferred

Apply distributed systems, control plane, reliability, and software engineering leadership to foundational AWS Transactional Services.