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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Software Developer Engineer 2 - AWS End User Messaging

Full-Time
$143.7k - $194.4k/yr+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units (RSUs)
Mid
Bachelor's
Seattle, WA, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringBackend Engineering
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • At least three years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least two years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • At least one year of experience as a software development engineer or in a related occupation.
  • At least one year of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
  • At least one year of object-oriented design experience.
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  • A strong foundation in object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Experience with, or eagerness to learn, distributed systems and cloud services.
  • Passion for building customer-facing features and solving complex technical challenges.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • An ownership mindset and willingness to learn from experienced engineers.
Responsibilities
  • Build new microservices and APIs for templated messaging routing logic and fraud protection using modern development practices and AWS services.
  • Own features from design through deployment, including writing comprehensive tests, creating operational dashboards, and participating in on-call rotations.
  • Participate in design reviews, contribute to architecture decisions, and learn best practices for building fault-tolerant, highly available messaging systems.
  • Develop intelligent routing algorithms that select optimal origination identities based on destination country, carrier relationships, and delivery performance metrics.
  • Develop and enhance capabilities that analyze traffic patterns, detect suspicious activity, and automatically block fraudulent messages while minimizing false positives.
  • Write comprehensive tests, participate in code reviews, and contribute to the team's quality and operational excellence.
  • Develop expertise in telephony ecosystems, carrier integrations, compliance requirements, fraud detection systems, and AWS service development practices.
  • Mentor and grow junior engineers on the team.
  • Build templated messaging APIs with intelligent routing between customer-owned and AWS-managed phone numbers.
  • Implement systems to detect and prevent fraudulent traffic, protecting customers from unexpected costs while maintaining legitimate message delivery.
  • Develop distributed systems that optimize message delivery across global phone number pools.
  • Create intelligent routing systems that automatically detect delivery issues and reroute traffic to ensure high message delivery rates.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and technology leaders to translate customer needs into scalable features.
  • Build and scale messaging routing infrastructure across SMS, Voice, and RCS channels.
Desired Qualifications
  • At least three years of experience across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
  • Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
  • Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
  • Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
  • Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.

What makes Amazon unique

  • Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
  • Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
  • Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.

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