senior software engineering Backend Engineer ic · Posted Dec 17, 2025
$193,300 – $261,500
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Bellevue, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Go, Rust, C. Compensation is listed at $193,300–$261,500 per year.

Role
Backend Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Bellevue, WA
Department
Software Development
Posted
Dec 17, 2025

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Do you want to help shape the future of compute for the Amazon Web Services cloud? The EC2 Instance Platform organization is responsible for tackling challenging problems faced by enterprise customers via cloud-based solutions. The team uses next-gen technologies to develop large-scale platforms to help customers optimally run their business. We are hiring Senior Software Development Engineers to make Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) the best place to run enterprise class workloads. As part of our team you will help build next generation services that simplifies how our customers and partners configure and manage high performance computing workloads on the cloud. You will closely work with various pre-release Amazon technologies and build services that handle large scale, highly available distributed systems. We are looking for Software Development Engineers who are passionate about working on next-gen technologies, who bring deep technical knowledge, and who have experience with distributed systems to drive technical design and implement end-end solutions. If you’re into operating systems, how software interfaces with hardware, file systems, or just working on challenging software problems where performance and code size still matter, come and join us. The ideal candidate for this position is a software engineer excited to work in…

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