1 day ago
Arlington, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and launch customer-facing Amazon Q capabilities and the backend services that power them.
- Build systems connecting foundation models with AWS knowledge, customer context, retrieval systems, APIs, tools, and actions.
- Solve complex engineering problems involving generative AI, distributed systems, contextual grounding, retrieval, tool execution, agentic workflows, latency, reliability, and security.
- Own features and services from requirements and technical design through implementation, deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to architecture, technical designs, design reviews, and scalable, maintainable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.
- Build production systems with testing, observability, monitoring, deployment, operational readiness, and incident response practices.
- Collaborate with engineers, applied scientists, product managers, and partner teams; participate in code reviews and share technical knowledge.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving 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 software 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 with at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- Position is based in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
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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.