Senior Software Engineer, AWS Metering
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 (50 min ago) · observed since
About this job
Do you want to be a part of one of Amazon's largest big-data processing teams? Computing AWS bills, at its core, is a large-scale distributed systems problem that requires processing trillions of usage records every hour for millions of customers, with a 100% accuracy promise.
As a senior software engineer, you will develop and improve large-scale distributed systems on top of AWS services, learn new technologies, and build new applications on big-data platforms. AWS Metering is on the critical path of billing, and you can expect your work to be used by hundreds of AWS teams, impact millions of external customers, and save millions of dollars.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our experienced members enjoy providing one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Key job responsibilities
Design high-quality, efficient, and testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages.
Build large-scale, highly available distributed systems that can grow tenfold every three years.
Develop new anomaly detection algorithms to detect and eliminate billing inaccuracies, helping customers control costs.
Collaborate with AWS teams to build software and services that simplify their growing billing needs.
Own and operate the systems you build, holding a high bar for data quality, correctness, and operational rigor.
Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team.
Partner with product managers and engineers across Commerce Platform teams to deliver features and drive the adoption of best practices.
About the team
At AWS Metering, we build billing services and features that enable event-metering, storage-metering, and derived metering. We enable cost allocation through tags and generate cost alerts for AWS customers. We also build and operate one of the largest big-data processing pipelines at Amazon, continuously improving its scale and efficiency.
In addition, we are developing new anomaly detection algorithms to minimize billing errors and designing new services aimed at reducing metering processing latencies from hours to minutes.
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
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 Engineer, AWS Metering (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
- 2026-09-14
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: US, WA, Seattle
USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
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