Amazon

Software Development Engineer

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Seattle, WA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $214k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop low-latency, secure agentic platform components using generative AI and machine learning technologies.
  • Build scalable systems that process millions of data points and optimize resource utilization, token consumption, memory management, and cost efficiency.
  • Develop conversational AI and natural-language interactions for advertiser bidding guidance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-driven solutions across the advertising ecosystem.
  • Identify root causes of operational issues and implement permanent fixes while improving tooling, processes, and operations.
  • Write maintainable, well-documented code and provide meaningful code reviews.
  • Mentor engineers and train new teammates on system architecture and operations.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 2 years of non-internship 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 software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  • Strong technical fluency in generative AI, including LLMs, model fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RLHF, RAG, and model trade-offs involving size, latency, cost, and output quality.
  • Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree or equivalent.
  • Preferred: experience developing, deploying, and managing AI products at scale.

Benefits

  • Amazon offers health, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, medical advice services, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • The position is located in New York, NY or Seattle, WA, USA.
  • Compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units in addition to base salary.

Tech Stack

C#C++JavaPerl
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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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