Senior Software Development Engineer/ Tech Lead, Amazon
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position provides excellent value through high visibility projects in a fast-paced tech environment, with strong compensation potential.
- Excellent compensation: $129,300–$223,600/year
- Leading role in innovative software development
- Opportunities to influence and shape cloud technologies
- Demands strong technical expertise and commitment
Pros
- High salary range ($129,300–$223,600/year) reflecting expertise demand
- Exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies
- Strong career advancement potential in a high-performance team
Cons
- High performance expectations and pressure
- Limited work-life balance due to project demands
- Requires adaptation to rapidly evolving tech environments
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid / Some remote flexibility
Good fit
- Senior developers with cloud expertise
- Engineers passionate about open-source technologies
- Innovators looking to lead in software development teams
Not recommended for
- Junior developers without relevant experience
- Those uncomfortable with high workloads and deadlines
- Candidates preferring strictly defined roles
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
DESCRIPTION
The Forge team provides tools, services and frameworks for one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. The team's mission is to create engaging and intuitive advertising experiences across campaign creation, management, and strategic recommendations. We help advertisers reach their marketing goals and getting the most out of their brand and product catalogs while minimizing cognitive load. We accelerate advertiser success through every stage of the advertising cycle—from planning, discovery, and decisions to launch, manage, and monitoring of campaigns, through to ongoing optimization via recommendations and insights. Our customers include sellers, vendors, authors, entertainment creators (both endemic and non-endemic), as well as partners, agencies, and Amazon’s marketing and sales teams, who operate globally and across all device types.
We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer to help us evolve the tools, services and frameworks we provide. We seek that rare combination of a solid coding background, a proven track record of applying technologies at scale, and a willingness to challenge the status quo and raise the bar on every service and feature we build.
Key job responsibilities
- A strong understanding of, and a desire to deeply learn customer and developer needs, experience building and operating consumer-facing systems from the ground up, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior partners (Sr. SDM, Director, VP), as the initiatives are highly strategic and visible across Amazon's senior leadership.
- You will be responsible for challenging the status quo, raising the bar on every service and feature we build, driving the team’s long-term vision and architecture, shaping roadmaps, and providing technical leadership to the engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive design and architecture experience, knowledge of AWS technologies and services (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, CloudFormation, VPC, API Gateway, Amazon CloudWatch, etc.), front-end and middle-tier frameworks, and a proven track record of building mission-critical, highly scalable systems.
- To drive our campaign creation technology evolution strategy, we are looking for someone self-motivated, who will invest time in understanding customers in a meaningful way, is highly goal-oriented, self-driven to push boundaries, and has a track record of delivering results
