Sr. Software Development Engineer, Quick Triggers

Salary: $193,500 - 193,500 per year Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, excluding internships
• 5+ years of programming experience in at least one software language
• 5+ years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• Experience mentoring engineers, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team
• Preferred: 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations
• Preferred: Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

• Lead architecture and end-to-end delivery of large, ambiguous features spanning backend services, infrastructure, and frontend
• Set technical direction and design solutions with partner teams, balancing reliability, scalability, and cost
• Build and operate scalable, event-driven distributed systems on AWS, including Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, and ECS Fargate
• Define and maintain multi-region CDK infrastructure and deployment pipelines
• Strengthen engineering and operational standards through design and code reviews, alarms, dashboards, runbooks, and on-call practices
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers, serving as a technical leader for the team
• Work with product and UX partners to turn ambiguous business needs into actionable technical roadmaps
• Design, deliver, and operate Trigger Service features from initial design through multi-region rollout
• Debug cross-account request delivery and help scope features and unblock team members

• Agentic AI
• AI
• AWS
• Lambda
• Backend
• Frontend
• UX UI Design
• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• Kotlin

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Amazon Quick is our agentic AI-powered workspace, connecting applications, tools, and data so teams can get answers and take action using natural language, without coding. As a Software Development Engineer III on our Mission Control - Triggers team, you will help build the Trigger Service, which starts work automatically on a schedule or in response to events. The service is a multi-region, event-driven platform used by both customers and other Amazon Quick teams. Our San Francisco-based team ships frequently and values ownership, technical rigor, operational excellence, and collaboration. The base salary range for this position is $193,500 annually, with sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location. We also offer benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. We are an equal opportunity employer and provide workplace accommodations during the application and hiring process. For applicants in Los Angeles County and San Francisco, we consider qualified candidates with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable Fair Chance ordinances.

last updated 40 week of 2026