SDEII Specialist GenAI Tooling, Specialist Technology Team (STT), AWS WWSO SA Field Initiatives
Amazon2 days ago
Jersey City, NJ, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$158k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale Knowledge Vault crawlers and ingestion pipelines for internal and external specialist content.
- Improve embedding, retrieval, and ranking systems through experimentation, evaluation, and production rollout.
- Build evaluation test sets, prompts, and guardrails and define quality standards for agent responses.
- Design reusable APIs and MCP/A2A integrations for AWS Specialist Agent and Knowledge Vault.
- Own operational excellence, including monitoring, alarming, on-call incident response, root-cause remediation, COE reviews, and metrics reviews.
- Partner with Product Management, Applied Science, and Technical Field Community stakeholders to scope projects and balance customer and team priorities.
- Conduct code and design reviews, mentor and onboard SDE Is and new team members, and participate in recruiting and interviewing.
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 experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications 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.
- 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 benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, 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.
- The listed work locations are Jersey City, New Jersey, and New York, New York.
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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.