Software Development Manager Jobs in Washington
Software Development Manager jobs in Washington are among the most active in the country, concentrated in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, e-commerce technology, and defense systems, with demand at every level from team lead to senior director. Seattle and the Eastside corridor anchoring Bellevue and Redmond drive the highest volume of openings, while Kirkland sees steady hiring from established names including Microsoft, Amazon, and Boeing. The most in-demand specializations are distributed systems engineering management, platform and cloud services leadership, and AI and machine learning team management. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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DESCRIPTION
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is looking for experienced software development engineers to help us build the future of cloud storage. EBS provides high-performance virtualized storage for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and is a key building block for many applications, from databases to distributed file systems and Hadoop clusters. As a member of the EBS team, you will have ownership over the design, implementation, and operation of one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will work closely with a tight, agile team that delivers features continuously, and you will be able to see the impact of your work on real customers!
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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Key job responsibilities
You will have opportunities to develop software on the latest platforms and drive the roadmap for the next generation of compute instances. You will have an immediate impact on millions of customers, driving down latencies and improving the AWS customer experience. You will be surrounded by world-class technical talent, who are incredibly passionate about AWS and our product. You will gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.
A day in the life
As an SDE II, you will be involved in all parts of a software developer lifecycle - including software & system designing, coding, troubleshooting, testing, doing code reviews, testing, deployment and service maintenance. You will play an active role in all team meetings & discussion, leading project initiatives, influencing team's long term vision & strategies, partnering up with senior engineers and Stats customers.
Be a part of the team whose mission is to enable our customers to quickly and effectively generate both strategic and operational cross-cutting insights from fleet telemetry in self-service manner, and to deliver performance and health insights directly to EBS customers. We do this by owning and operating high throughput and distributed systems ingesting and processing petabyte of data in real-time with sub-minute latency to allow the EBS and broader AWS teams to ingest, transform, publish, query and visualize petabyte scale fleet telemetry data, and feed their data into standard monitoring tools.
On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every three months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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.
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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is looking for experienced software development engineers to help us build the future of cloud storage. EBS provides high-performance virtualized storage for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and is a key building block for many applications, from databases to distributed file systems and Hadoop clusters. As a member of the EBS team, you will have ownership over the design, implementation, and operation of one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will work closely with a tight, agile team that delivers features continuously, and you will be able to see the impact of your work on real customers!
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
10017
Key job responsibilities
You will have opportunities to develop software on the latest platforms and drive the roadmap for the next generation of compute instances. You will have an immediate impact on millions of customers, driving down latencies and improving the AWS customer experience. You will be surrounded by world-class technical talent, who are incredibly passionate about AWS and our product. You will gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.
A day in the life
As an SDE II, you will be involved in all parts of a software developer lifecycle - including software & system designing, coding, troubleshooting, testing, doing code reviews, testing, deployment and service maintenance. You will play an active role in all team meetings & discussion, leading project initiatives, influencing team's long term vision & strategies, partnering up with senior engineers and Stats customers.
Be a part of the team whose mission is to enable our customers to quickly and effectively generate both strategic and operational cross-cutting insights from fleet telemetry in self-service manner, and to deliver performance and health insights directly to EBS customers. We do this by owning and operating high throughput and distributed systems ingesting and processing petabyte of data in real-time with sub-minute latency to allow the EBS and broader AWS teams to ingest, transform, publish, query and visualize petabyte scale fleet telemetry data, and feed their data into standard monitoring tools.
On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every three months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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.
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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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Where Washington roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Software Development Manager Job Market in Washington
A snapshot from current Washington openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Amazon225
- Amazon Web Services150
- Blue Origin11
- TikTok10
- Adobe6
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software75
- Retail51
- E-Commerce & Online Marketplaces51
- Distribution & Wholesale50
- Insurance1
What Washington Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in software development manager jobs across Washington.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Proven experience leading software engineering teams through full product development cycles
- Hands-on background as a software engineer or senior developer before moving into management
- Familiarity with agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe at scale
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud in production environments
- Strong record of cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and infrastructure teams
Software Development Manager Jobs in Washington: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a software development manager in Washington?
The most direct path is building several years of hands-on software engineering experience, then demonstrating leadership through tech lead or staff engineer roles before formally managing a team. Washington does not require a state-issued license for software development managers. Most employers in the Seattle and Eastside markets expect a bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related field, and many favor candidates who have led teams building distributed or cloud-native systems.
Which companies hire software development managers in Washington?
Employers hiring software development managers in Washington right now include Amazon, Amazon Web Services, and Blue Origin, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Washington's density of technology headquarters and large engineering campuses makes it one of the few markets where both hyper-scale companies and well-funded growth-stage firms compete for experienced engineering managers at the same time.
Which Washington cities have the most software development manager jobs?
Seattle, Redmond, and Bellevue have the most software development manager openings in Washington. Seattle anchors the largest share because of its concentration of technology headquarters and major cloud and e-commerce operations, while Bellevue and Redmond reflect the massive engineering campuses of Microsoft and other established tech employers that have built their largest teams on the Eastside.
Are there remote software development manager jobs in Washington?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 36% of software development manager openings tied to Washington are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how naturally suited the role is to distributed work. The parts of the job most commonly done remotely are one-on-ones, sprint planning, and roadmap reviews, while on-site presence is most often required for hiring interviews, team offsites, and cross-functional strategy sessions.
How can I get hired as a software development manager in Washington with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a formal engineering management role from a senior or staff engineer position at a Washington employer that offers structured internal mobility, such as Amazon, Microsoft, or mid-size technology companies in the Seattle and Eastside market. Look for internal postings labeled engineering lead, tech lead manager, or development lead, which often serve as first-rung management roles. Building a record of mentoring junior engineers and owning a roadmap deliverable strengthens any internal or external candidacy significantly.
Where can I find and apply to software development manager jobs in Washington?
You can find and apply to software development manager jobs in Washington on Migrate Mate, which lists current Washington openings across industries and hiring levels. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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