2 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop backend systems and online services for LLM-powered agentic applications.
- Build distributed, multi-tiered services, service orchestration patterns, agent frameworks, and real-time processing systems at scale.
- Develop API-driven applications and contribute to service reliability metrics and performance optimizations.
- Enable conversational LLM features for Amazon Stores and improve shopping and search experiences.
- Partner with engineers, scientists, technical program managers, and business leaders on technical roadmaps and delivery.
- Contribute to prioritization, estimation, sprint planning, and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- At least 1 year of object-oriented design experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: 3 or more years covering the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: Experience building or operating LLM-powered agent systems, agent evaluation frameworks, or large-scale LLM hosting and serving, including model deployment, inference optimization, GPU cluster management, vLLM, or TensorRT.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon compensation package.
- The position is listed in Palo Alto, California, and Seattle, Washington; the posting does not specify a remote or hybrid arrangement.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.