Software Development Engineer, Amazon Software...

Are you passionate about leveraging GenAI to simplify the builder experience and accelerate innovation at Amazon scale?

We own the software builder experience across IDEs, agentic clients, and their integrations with the Amazon ecosystem. Our mission is to keep builders in control and productive during code authoring phase. We own the integration layer across IDE, CLI, and agent-orchestrated environments that lets builders inspect, understand, and intervene at every step. We are part of Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX), the organization that provides the tools and platforms every Amazon engineer uses to build, test, deploy, and operate software.

This is a rare opportunity to shape how thousands of engineers work with AI. As an SDE II, you will build and operate the infrastructure that integrates agentic AI tools with the Amazon developer ecosystem, ensuring builders maintain control and consistency across all surfaces. If you want your code to multiply the productivity of thousands of engineers, this is the role.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure that integrates IDEs and agentic AI tools with the Amazon developer ecosystem

• Own service reliability and operational excellence across IDE, CLI, and agent-orchestrated environments

• Build scalable systems that support the shift toward CLI-driven and agent-orchestrated workflows while maintaining the IDE as a first-class surface

• Build instrumentation of builder surfaces to measure friction and prioritize investment based on usage data

• Partner with teams across Amazon and AWS to onboard new AI capabilities and drive adoption across the builder ecosystem

• Deliver features end-to-end from design through deployment, optimizing for time-to-first-productive-session

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

• 1+ years 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 Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually