Software Development Engineer II, Lightsail

Job description

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.