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# Software Dev Engineer II, Talent Development

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $143,700.0 - $194,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Expert Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology
- **Published:** May 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10420199/software-dev-engineer-ii-talent-development

## About the Role

1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

 - Experience programming with at least one software programming language, Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

## Description

Talent Development Journey team's mission is to make it easier for Amazonians to build rewarding careers in Amazon's peculiar culture. To deliver on this mission, Talent Development tech team is building a talent development ecosystem (TDE) which empowers human judgement, action, and interaction to make it easier to learn and grow in Amazon's peculiar culture. TDE enables authoring high quality content, delivering personalized learning experiences, and measuring proficiencies at scale.

As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) on Talent Development, you will be responsible for the feature design, development, test, and deployment of components for a new platform for recording the learning experience of Amazon employees. As an SDE, you will be responsible for setting a high bar throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. You will collaborate closely with other software developers, data engineers, data scientists, and learning scientists.
You are familiar with (and can learn) the basic patterns of expert system pipelines. You will be working closely with education scientists and domain experts. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing distributed systems, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.

We're working hard, having fun, making history; come join us!


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