Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Game Studios

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Amazon Game Studios is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join a new Publishing Tech Team as a Tech Lead, shaping the future of cloud-native gaming on Luna.

You will be the technical anchor of a lean, high-impact team building an entirely new "AI Native" publishing technology stack — with no legacy dependencies and no ceiling on innovation.

In this role, you'll set the technical direction for Amazon Game Studios' common Publishing services platform, lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and serve as the primary technical partner for world-class external game developers.

Key job responsibilities

• Define and own the technical vision and architecture for Amazon Game Studios' publishing technology platform, including the TechOps layer (artifact management, error tracking, build pipelines), Game Services layer (authentication, telemetry collection, live configuration, API gateway), and Developer Tools
• Champion AI-powered gameplay innovation, leveraging AWS Bedrock and proprietary AI solutions to create competitive advantages unique to Luna's cloud-native platform
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for external game development partners, providing full-stack support across game clients, mobile web-based controllers, backend services, and cloud infrastructure
• Partner with Luna platform and other Amazon teams to integrate bleeding-edge technology and advocate for platform improvements that benefit our games
• Ensure all games meet Amazon's quality bar and Luna's technical certification requirements, including performance optimization, accessibility compliance, and security standards
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team; establish technical standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices that scale across the portfolio
• Stay current with game development technologies, cloud gaming innovations, and emerging AI capabilities — and bring those insights back to the team
  
  

A day in the life

As Tech Lead, you will work with the Technical Director to define the technical roadmap, drive architectural decisions across the full publishing stack, and ensure the team executes with speed and rigor. You thrive in ambiguity, lead through influence, and know how to balance long-term platform thinking with the urgency of shipping games on accelerated timelines (12–24 months vs. the industry standard of 36 months).

About The Team

The Amazon Game Studios Tech Team accelerates Amazon Luna's strategy by enabling world-class games on Luna cloud gaming and PC platforms. We own the publishing infrastructure layer — build/release pipelines, game services (auth, telemetry, live config), and developer SDKs — that enables Amazon Game Studios to provide publishing support for 15 titles in concurrent development with a lean team.

We are the trusted bridge that connects external game developers with Amazon's technical ecosystem, removing barriers and increasing developer velocity so every Amazon Game Studios game launches with the quality, performance, and innovation players expect from Amazon.

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 4 years of Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
• Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops), or experience leading engineering teams as a mentor or tech lead
• Experience with Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc), or experience in development in the last 3 years
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 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
• Experience designing mobile web or on-device mobile applications
• Experience designing and operating multi-tenant backend services (auth, telemetry, configuration management, SDKs)
• Knowledge of multiplayer game systems, matchmaking, and real-time networking
  
  

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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 - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually