Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted today

Software Development Engineer II, Lightsail

Amazon / AWS21,066 open roles

Where
Seattle, Washington, United States
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowSoftware Development Engineer II, LightsailAmazon / AWS · Seattle, Washington, United States

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Amazon / AWS's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Amazon / AWS postings stay open a median of 18 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.2%1 day
  2. 4.7%3 days
  3. 12.9%7 days
  4. 21.0%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.5%60 days
This job: posted today

Amazon / AWS median: 18 days open

The posting

Amazon Lightsail makes AWS accessible to developers and business customers who want to get their cloud stacks running in seconds without the complexity of traditional infrastructure. As a Software Development Engineer II on the Lightsail team, you will build features and services that simplify compute, storage, networking, and website hosting for customers who need things to just work. The team is expanding quickly, adding new capabilities like website hosting and agent hosting, and you will help shape what comes next. You will work across the full software development lifecycle, from understanding customer problems through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations. If you are an engineer who enjoys building products you would actually use yourself, and you want to do that at AWS scale, we would like to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities Design and build features for Amazon Lightsail's distributed systems, working in Java, Go, JavaScript, and React across both backend services and frontend experiences. Collaborate with partner teams across AWS — including Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) — to integrate Lightsail capabilities with the broader AWS ecosystem. Own the operational health of the services you build by identifying root causes of production issues and driving permanent fixes, ensuring customers experience reliable performance. Participate actively in design reviews and code reviews, providing constructive feedback to teammates and mentoring other engineers on writing clean, maintainable code. Evaluate new technologies and approaches, including generative artificial intelligence tools, to improve team productivity and the quality of solutions delivered to customers.

A day in the life You start your morning checking operational dashboards for a Lightsail service you recently launched, then join a design review where you and a teammate work through how to integrate a new hosting capability with an existing AWS service. After lunch, you pick up a feature task, writing backend logic in Java and wiring up the React console so customers can try it out. Later, you review a pull request from a teammate, leave detailed feedback, and update documentation so the next engineer who touches this code can ramp up quickly.

About the team Amazon Lightsail sits within AWS and has a distinctive mission: make cloud infrastructure simple and approachable for non-enterprise customers. While we run on the same AWS infrastructure that powers the world's largest workloads, our focus is on removing complexity so developers and small businesses can launch and scale without a steep learning curve. We are an inclusive team that values knowledge sharing and mentorship, and we intentionally assign projects to help each engineer grow. Right now we are investing in new hosting and agent capabilities, so there is plenty of room to have a direct impact on what we build next.

- 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 - 2+ 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

- 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.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Amazon / AWS's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Amazon / AWS's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Amazon / AWS's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.