Amazon

Software Development Engineer, Special Projects

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Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $194k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own major portions of a greenfield product from design through launch and operation.
  • Build LLM agents and callable tools on Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, including automated quality evaluations.
  • Develop the customer-facing TypeScript/React application with streaming responses, tool calls, and agent-output review workflows.
  • Design new services and write design documents that shape the team's technical direction.
  • Operate production systems through monitoring, alarming, operational support, and root-cause remediation.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines, per-change preview environments, automated evaluations, and mechanisms for safe, rapid delivery.
  • Collaborate with product, science, design, and engineering partners across the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems for reliability and scaling.
  • At least 3 years of software development engineer or related occupational 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.
  • At least 2 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: experience taking technology products from ideation through launch.
  • Preferred: experience building applications on large language models or AI agents.
  • Preferred: full-stack experience with TypeScript/React, backend services, and AWS infrastructure as code using CDK or CloudFormation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
  • Basic Life and AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package, separate from base salary.
  • The team emphasizes work-life balance, mentorship, career growth, training, and inclusive employee communities.
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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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