Senior SDE, AWS SageMaker

About the Role

We invite you to join the Amazon SageMaker Governance team as a Senior Software Development Engineer. This team provides foundational platform capabilities that give enterprise customers trust, visibility, and control over their ML assets at scale. You will own the design and delivery of large-scale, highly available distributed systems that power the end-to-end ML development experience, driving technical vision, influencing product direction, and raising the engineering bar across the organization.

Engineers on this team are expected to experiment with new technologies and ideas to drive innovation and ensure SageMaker remains a best-in-class service. You will collaborate with a team of highly skilled and dedicated engineers committed to achieving new levels of success.

About Amazon SageMaker AI

Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed machine learning service that simplifies building, training, and deploying machine learning models. It abstracts away the undifferentiated heavy-lifting associated with large-scale machine learning implementations, allowing developers and data scientists to focus on core modeling and problem-solving. SageMaker is used by businesses of all sizes, including leading global enterprises, across multiple geographic regions.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and continue to innovate, offering a robust suite of products and services trusted by startups and Global 500 companies alike.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We are committed to becoming Earth’s Best Employer, providing endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career-advancing resources to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility in our working culture. Success at work should never come at the expense of personal well-being, and we support a balanced approach to achieve excellence in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex software systems, defining long-term technical strategy and driving alignment across teams.
• Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale distributed services with high availability, low latency, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with product, science, and partner engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver customer-obsessed solutions.
• Mentor engineers across levels, conduct design and code reviews, and actively raise the technical and operational bar for the team.
• Champion best practices in CI/CD, observability, testing, and incident management, fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve the developer experience, contributing to patents, publications, or open-source projects where appropriate.
• Deeply understand customer workflows and pain points, translating insights into scalable, intuitive platform capabilities.

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Pay

The base salary range for this position in Bellevue, WA is $168,100 - $227,400 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, and Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.