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# Software Development Engineer, EC2 VPC

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $143,700.0 - $194,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Architecture, Ruby, Software Engineering, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kotlin, Build Management, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** June 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gbn23u

## About the Role

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

 - Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

 - Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

 - Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

 - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

## Description

Design and build server-side APIs and asynchronous workflows in Java and Kotlin that operate at EC2 scale across all AWS regions

 - Own services end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring

 - Troubleshoot and root-cause customer-impacting issues across distributed systems

 - Write and review design documents for new features and system improvements

 - Mentor junior engineers through design reviews and code reviews

 - Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational improvements to improve availability

 - Build and maintain automation tooling in Python and Ruby to support deployment safety and fleet operations

A day in the life

On a typical day, you might root-cause a customer-reported API failure across multiple services, whiteboard a concurrency design with a senior engineer, or pair with a teammate on a tricky debugging session. You own your services end-to end: design, code review, deployment, and production monitoring. You'll collaborate with peers and senior engineers on system design, mentor junior engineers, and raise the bar in code reviews. On-call rotations give you direct exposure to how your services behave in production at EC2 scale. Expect a mix of heads-down coding and collaborative design sessions.


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