Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Trainium AI Infra

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Lead the design and operation of infrastructure services and provisioning for AWS Trainium-based AI servers.

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Are you excited about building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI workloads? As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the EC2 UltraServer Provisioning team, you will lead technical strategy, design, and operation of infrastructure services — including provisioning and availability of AWS Trainium-based AI servers. You will architect large-scale systems, build microservices, and collaborate cross-functionally with capacity management, hardware engineering, and datacenter teams to manage AI/ML infrastructure at scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of infrastructure systems that support AI workloads on UltraServers, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.
- Own your team's architectural direction for provisioning systems, influencing technical decisions across dependent systems and driving alignment with partner teams.
- Collaborate with capacity management, hardware engineering, and datacenter teams to improve provisioning workflows and operate efficiently at scale.
- Mentor and coach engineers on the team, driving adoption of engineering best practices and raising the technical bar across the organization.
- Investigate complex performance challenges, develop solutions, and publish actionable best practices to internal and external stakeholders.

A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing operational metrics for provisioning pipelines, then shift into a design review with hardware engineering partners on an upcoming server configuration. After lunch, you could be deep in code — prototyping a new microservice or refactoring a critical path in the provisioning workflow. Throughout the day, you balance hands-on technical work with mentoring teammates, unblocking cross-team dependencies, and contributing to architectural decisions that shape how AI infrastructure scales.

About the team
The EC2 UltraServer Provisioning team is responsible for delivering AWS Trainium-based UltraServer infrastructure at scale. We manage end-to-end provisioning workflows from host ingestion through testing, repair, and recovery. Our mission is to ensure that AI/ML customers have reliable, high-performance compute infrastructure ready when they need it. We are a collaborative engineering team that values technical depth, operational excellence, and building systems that grow with customer demand.

Basic qualifications

- 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

Preferred qualifications

- 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

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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 - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Trainium AI Infra at Amazon rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

Key facts

Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Trainium AI Infra is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $168k-$227k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on October 5, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where provisioning was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where system architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used AWS Trainium in your day-to-day work.

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Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Lead with what you built, trained or shipped — this role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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