Software Development Engineer II, TAIS - DMR

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer II, TAIS - DMR in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, Kubernetes and Clickhouse.
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Build software and big data solutions for the next-generation network monitoring systems at AWS.

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AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

AWS Networking Data Management and Research team owns a data bus, which performs ingestion, enrichment and transformation of raw networking data. Our mission is to distribute the data to our customers and build systems that enables customers and scientists to run experiments on top of it. We are looking for an exceptional Software Development Engineer (SDE) to build the software and leverage big data solutions for devising the next generation of network monitoring systems.

The ideal candidate will share our excitement about cloud computing and will be passionate about delivering high quality services. You will have good knowledge of distributed systems with design and implementation experience, as well as the ability to lead and mentor other engineers. You will be customer centric and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that requires excellent technical and communication skills. You will join a tenured team of Software Development Engineers, System Development engineers, and Data Engineers . This is an opportunity to build a new service utilizing AWS technologies.

We are looking for a candidate who will be comfortable working with a broad range of data sources and solving problems at scale. As a team we proactively support knowledge-sharing and we embrace opportunities to teach company-wide. Since every business at Amazon relies on a network that runs smoothly, the right candidate will guide the business and communicate value, work collaboratively to develop pragmatic yet flexible solutions and move forward in the face ambiguity. The candidate should be willing to build good working relationships within the team and across AWS.

Key job responsibilities
As an L5 SDE on DMR, you will independently own and deliver customer-facing features and services on the Mentat platform and its surrounding data services. You will design in complex, ambiguous spaces, drive alignment across partner teams, own the operational health of what you build, and raise the bar for engineers around you. This is a hands-on senior IC role: you write and review production code, run large-scale distributed systems in production, and set technical direction that others build on.

A day in the life
A typical day starts with the team standup, where you share progress straight into the task board and unblock anyone who needs it. You spend focused time designing and building a customer-facing feature on Mentat, land code reviews for an SDE-1 and an intern you mentor, and pair with a partner team to onboard a new data source. When your on-call pager fires, you dive deep on a Sev-2, trace it to a root cause in the ingestion path, and ship a fix plus an alarm so it does not recur. In between, you review a design doc for an upcoming data source onboarding, weigh in on a storage retention decision to keep cost within plan, and leave the platform a little more reliable than you found it. Fridays are meeting-free, so you protect that time for deep work.

About the team
DMR owns and operates the Data Exchange Services for AWS Networking. We run a stream-first, centrally operated data platform where partner teams co-locate their part of the network data working set — enriched and transformed in memory for real-time use, and indexed and compacted in the datalake for analytics.

Our primary system is Mentat, a real-time network analytics engine, where the majority of the team's bandwidth is invested. We also own and operate NetMetricSink (NMS), StyxKafka and Styx Tributary, Satori, serves a growing set of internal customers (AWSNetworking, Cloudfront, IVS, IES, NPD, Ariadne, ROCEv2, SIDR/Overwatch, and others).

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ 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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer II, TAIS - DMR at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
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Key facts

Software Development Engineer II, TAIS - DMR is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $144k-$194k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on October 15, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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This job starts at: $144k
Typical software engineer job: $167k

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