Software Development Engineer III, MetaDor

Join Amazon's MetaDor team within the BuilderWorks organization as a Senior Software Engineer III, where you'll play a crucial role in shaping how Amazon handles data across its vast ecosystem. The MetaDor team specializes in collecting and analyzing metadata related to data usage across Amazon's services, creating essential service-to-data relationship mappings and generating valuable insights that drive critical decisions about data regionality and performance optimization.

As a Senior Engineer, you'll take on technical leadership responsibilities throughout the entire development lifecycle - from initial conception and design through implementation, testing, and maintenance. Your expertise will be vital in designing and maintaining highly-available, fault-tolerant distributed systems that manage metadata at scale. You'll provide technical guidance through design reviews, offering valuable feedback on architecture, integration approaches, and scalability considerations.

This role offers an opportunity to work on challenging technical problems at massive scale, directly influencing Amazon's region flexibility data migration strategy. Your work will help teams navigate complex data migration decisions, making you a key contributor to Amazon's infrastructure evolution. The position requires strong technical expertise, with at least 5 years of professional software development experience and a proven track record of leading design and architecture initiatives.

Working at Amazon means joining a company that values innovation and long-term thinking. You'll be part of a team that's tackling complex technical challenges while directly impacting how Amazon manages and optimizes its vast data infrastructure. The role offers competitive compensation, with a base salary range of $150,700 to $251,700 per year, plus additional benefits and equity components as part of Amazon's total compensation package.

If you're passionate about distributed systems, metadata management, and technical leadership, and want to work on solutions that impact Amazon's global infrastructure, this role presents an excellent opportunity to advance your career while solving complex technical challenges at scale.