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# Software Dev Engineer III, Programming Foundations

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,100.0 - $227,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Compilers, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Programming Tools, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Free and Open-Source Software, Build Tools, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Software Library, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/3D4B34670DE24EBE9F399192DDE1404C/job/

## About the Role

* 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
 * 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
 * 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
 * Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team, * 5+ 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

## Description

Join the Programming Foundations Team within Amazon Builder Experience as a Software Development Engineer. The Language Experience team in Builder Tools is the center of excellence for Amazon's use of programming languages, highly-leveraged shared software, and application build tools.

Our tools are used in all aspects of the business, and their care and evolution are of critical importance to the effectiveness of Amazon. We're looking for a deeply technical leader interested in sustaining and evolving the shared software platform used by nearly every service within the company. Those with experience evolving broadly distributed and highly complex software libraries, such as large open source projects and mission critical foundational software stacks will be given an opportunity to have company wide impact., You will design and build developer tools that Amazon engineers use every day. You will work with the languages and libraries that power Amazon's services, making them easier to use and more reliable. You will help maintain our build tools, compilers, libraries and frameworks. You will shape how OSS upstream projects are developing, including contributing to them directly yourself. You will collaborate with engineers across Amazon to understand their pain points and build tools, libraries and frameworks that address them. You will mentor the engineers you work closely with and help bar raise the builder experience from the language perspective. You will write code, review code from teammates, and help others debug issues with our tools.