Amazon Software Development Engineer

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Posted date: Jul 22, 2025

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Location: Seattle, WA

Estimated salary: $176,450
Range: $129,300 - $223,600


Description

Are you excited about building scalable distributed systems while improving the customer experience by personalizing the customer's journey? Do you like building systems that can process hundreds of billions of requests in a day? We are looking for talented software engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments and want to help us shape and scale the future of contextual data services, powering customer experiences across Amazon.

Through our highly available Tier-1 services we provide the building blocks for creating any shopping experience. As Amazon transitions from one-size-fits-all shopping experiences to experiences that are personalized and localized to our customers, our team is at the forefront of enabling experiences tailor-made for our 300 million plus customers. We power Search, Detail Page, Gateway, Personalization, Cart and Checkout across all platforms including Amazon.com, mobile and voice shopping. You will build systems and services to provide a comprehensive view of our customers, from who they are, why they are here, to what they like. Imagine building such massively scalable distributed systems processing hundreds of billions of requests in a day with next-generation technologies and with a customer obsessed, highly talented, and a fun team.

In our team, you will indulge your love of diving deep into complex technical problems, driving incremental system optimizations and raising the bar for operational excellence and development practices. We will look to you to help lift the skills and expertise of those around you.

If distributed computing, large-scale system design, machine learning, next-gen technologies excite you then you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow. You will own development and operation of the systems that you develop.

Key job responsibilities

- Design, develop, operate and continuously iterate on high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

- Translate requirements into detailed solution architectures and technical plans.

- Work across engineering teams and stakeholders to gather requirements, perform day-to-day development activities, participate in design discussions, code reviews, and ongoing operations of the service.

- Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.

- Automate and improve repetitive operational processes.

- Support & mentor junior members of the team as they progress with their careers.



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



Extended 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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.



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