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# Software Development Engineer, AWS License Manager

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $165,200.0 - $223,600.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Iterative and Incremental Development, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, System Software, Web Services, Session Description Protocol Security Descriptions (SDES), Build Management, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27994047/Software-Development-Engineer-Aws-License-Manager-California-Santa-Clara-7375

## About the Role

As a key member of the engineering team, you will have influence on our product strategy by helping define the product features, refine system architecture, and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product. And you will be successfully setting the foundation for the next phase of the product and beyond. A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating a reliable, scalable, and high-performance service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.

All team members actively participate in product definition, technical architecture review, iterative development, code review, and operations. Along with this, you'll have the opportunity to interact with enterprise customers to ensure their needs are met -- clear, professional communication with teammates and customers is an important part of the job.

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about start-up opportunities, and have a demonstrated track record of success delivering new features or products. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high-quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. He or she has strong OO design and implementation experience with knowledge of web services and cloud architecture., 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

 - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
 - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

 - 3+ 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

## Description

AWS License Manager Santa Clara team is looking for a software development engineer to help us define and build the future of licensing. The AWS License Manager Santa Clara team delivers high-performance applications and solutions, focusing on enabling enterprise adoption of AWS services. As a member of the team, you'll work alongside engineers and leaders, refine product requirements with product and program management, define architecture, and be a leader in the implementation and launch of new products, focused to ease the adoption of AWS services for enterprise customers. Our services help our customers migrate and manage their workloads in AWS., Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

A day in the life
A day in the life
The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this sounds interesting to you, apply and come chart your own path at Amazon.

About the team
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.


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