Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Transform

About the role

With roughly seven out of eight enterprise workloads still running on-premises or on mainframe, the opportunity to help the world's largest organizations move to the cloud is enormous. AWS Transform is building a platform that combines AI-driven automation with deep infrastructure and software engineering to analyze, plan, and execute large-scale application migrations.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on this team, you will work across the full stack, from designing the distributed systems and services that power migration workflows to building the intelligent agents that reason about complex legacy environments.

You will own the end-to-end technical direction of major features, from working backwards from customer needs through system design, implementation, testing, and production operations.

Your work will directly shape how enterprises transition their most critical workloads to AWS, and you will collaborate closely with go-to-market teams, professional services, and partner organizations to ensure the solutions you build translate into real customer outcomes.

If you are excited about solving ambiguous, high-impact problems that demand both strong systems engineering and applied AI skills, we would love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed services and AI-powered agents that analyze legacy codebases, plan migration strategies, and execute transformations end to end.
• Own your team's architectural direction, making trade-offs across scalability, performance, and security while driving alignment with dependent teams on shared interfaces and infrastructure.
• Write well-documented, production-quality code and lead design and code reviews that raise the engineering bar across the team, ensuring solutions are testable and easy for others to extend.
• Collaborate with go-to-market teams, professional services, and cross-functional engineering groups to translate customer requirements into product features and deliver them incrementally.
• Coach and mentor engineers on the team, share technical knowledge broadly, and contribute to recruiting efforts that strengthen the organization.

A day in the life

Your morning might start with a design review for a new service component that automates a migration step previously done by hand. After aligning on the approach with a colleague, you shift to writing and reviewing code, working on infrastructure plumbing one hour and refining an agent's decision logic the next. In the afternoon you join a sync with a go-to-market partner to discuss feedback from an enterprise customer pilot, then wrap up by updating operational dashboards and tuning alerts for a service your team recently launched.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, TX, Dallas - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually