Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Resilience, Incident Prevention
Company websiteamazon.com (Amazon, opens in new tab)
Base salary $168,100 to $227,400
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Seattle, WA
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- LocationSeattle, WA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
About this job
Join the team with a mission to drive higher availability for every AWS customer! As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the AWS Incident Prevention team, you'll own products that help thousands of AWS service teams test and improve their resilience posture, and build the next-generation intelligence layer that detects, prevents, and remediates failure modes before they become incidents—directly reducing the frequency and duration of operational events across all of AWS.
The team is is building a unified detection-to-mitigation experience that meets engineers where they are in the software development lifecycle. Pairing deep technical expertise with customer-focussed product intuition, you will own the the technical architecture of AI-powered products that orchestrate resilience testing and turn complex incident data into quality-gated resilience insights that drive action. You will work backwards from customers to own the ideation, design, and delivery of high-quality software while making high-judgment trade-offs across customer impact, software complexity, security and reliability, and engineering velocity. You will strengthen the culture of operational excellence on the team, and influence resilience practices across AWS teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable products that help AWS service teams test and improve resilience.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver intuitive customer experiences that help AWS service teams identify, prioritize, and address resilience risks.
- Lead projects across multiple engineers, make high-judgment one-way-door technical decisions.
- Own architecture for AI-native systems spanning agents, knowledge bases, and multi-step reasoning pipelines.
- Deliver developer tools that surface resilience context in code reviews, deployment pipelines, and dashboards.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for software quality and operational practices.
- Collaborate with partner teams in Amazon to invent and simplify software.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language 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
- Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
Source: Amazon · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($168,100) is above 65% of the 1,404 Software Engineering roles in Washington listed on this site; 165 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $143,700 to $168,100.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
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Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Resilience, Incident Prevention (this listing) | $168,100 - $227,400 |
| Data Center Cluster Operations Leader, DCC Communities | $170K - $265K |
| Data Center Cluster Operations Leader, AWS Data Centers | $170K - $265K |
| Manager, Data Engineering, GMT Global Operations Engineering and Support | $170K - $230K |
| Sr. Workday Application Analyst, Finance & Adaptive, Grocery Tech Business Operations & Program Management | $170K - $230K |
| IT App Analyst III - AMZ10322420 | $170K - $230K |
| Sr. Manager, Data and Insights, US Prime & Marketing Technology | $170,600 - $230,800 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-08-20
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USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
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