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Software Dev Engineer III, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon

Company websiteamazon.com (Amazon, opens in new tab)

Base salary $184,900  to $250,200

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Jersey City, NJ

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  • LocationJersey City, NJ
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE3) to help build and extend the service. Elastic Beanstalk is how developers get an application running on AWS without becoming infrastructure experts — you upload your code, and we handle capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto scaling, and application health monitoring.

Our team builds the orchestration system at the center of the service: the public API, the workflow system that provisions and mutates customer environments, the health monitoring subsystem, the eventing pipeline, and the AWS Console experience. We are also in the middle of the most significant architectural expansion in the service's history — extending Elastic Beanstalk to run on Kubernetes and EKS, while continuing to support the millions of environments already running on our classic architecture. Doing both at once, without customer disruption, is a genuinely hard distributed systems problem.

If you are someone who is passionate about building high quality services, delighting developers, and reducing the distance between "I have code" and "it's running in production," this job is for you. You will be joining a small team where an SDE3 has real design ownership from day one — you will lead design and implementation efforts on services used at AWS scale, and act as a force multiplier for the engineers around you.

To learn more about AWS Elastic Beanstalk, visit https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/.

Key job responsibilities

Design and Development: Take ownership of designing, developing, testing, and deploying services that facilitate a seamless "build from source" experience.

Scalability and Resilience: Work on ensuring that the service runs and scales reliably and efficiently.

Collaboration: Engage with a talented and diverse team to collectively architect and implement modern products. Embrace different backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

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, NJ, Jersey City - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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Pay in context

This role's base floor ($184,900) is above 79% of the 77 Software Engineering roles in New Jersey listed on this site; 1 other lists the same floor. Their median floor is $136,500; the middle half runs from $116,250 to $165,000.

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 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Amazon roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Amazon roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Software Dev Engineer III, AWS Elastic Beanstalk (this listing)$184,900 - $250,200
Software Development Manager, Volume Metadata, EBS$184,900 - $250,200
Sr. Robotics Software Engineer, Fauna$184,900 - $250,200
Software Development Manager, Off-Amazon Selection$184,900 - $250,200
Software Development Manager, AWS Proactive Security / AWS Piezo, AWS Proactive Security - AWS Piezo$184,900 - $250,200
Sr. SDE, Agentic Systems, Technical Content Experience (TCX) Engineering$184,900 - $250,200
Software Development Manager, AWS Quick$184,900 - $250,200

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Amazon roles · How to read the bar

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2026-10-12
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USA, NJ, Jersey City - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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