Location
Seattle, WA
Type
Full-time
Posted
9/2/2026
Compensation
$143,700 - $194,400 per year
Job description
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE) to enhance its container orchestration service and promote the use of containers in the cloud. The role involves working on ECS and Fargate, focusing on building robust and scalable systems. Candidates should have a strong background in distributed systems and a passion for customer-centric software development. The position requires analyzing large data sets and ensuring operational excellence.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
- 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
- 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
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
Responsibilities
- Create a first-class experience for customers by keeping their needs at the center of your work.
- Solve difficult problems with elegant and practical code.
- Design, build, deploy, and own scalable and robust systems.
- Help operate a public AWS service, including participating in on-call and improving operational health.
- Use data to guide your decisions and validate your assumptions.
- Contribute to architecture and technology choices for your features.
- Develop project plans and commitments, and deliver consistently against them.
Benefits
- Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
3,290
FY2026
Approval rate
99.1%
FY2026
LCA certified
32,937
FY2026
Entry-level share
10.6%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+9%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-44%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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