Software Development Engineer

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, object oriented programming and algorithms.
Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

Build distributed systems and inventory management services for Amazon's global fulfillment network.

AWS

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READY TO DO SOMETHING BIG?

How would you build the next generation of mission critical systems and services that power the ability to send, store and manage billions of products across the globe on behalf of our selling partners?

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is the Amazon service for world-wide sellers that offers access to Amazon’s vast distribution network as a service. Similar to how AWS provides infrastructure as a service, FBA allows sellers to only pay for what they use, creating a seamless experience to leverage our world-class infrastructure. Sellers, from Fortune 50 companies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs, in 135 countries worldwide, rely upon our world-leading technology to grow and thrive on Amazon’s Marketplaces.

As a leader within FBA, you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality required to have the best in class offering for sellers. This leader will create mechanisms to drive optimal seller behavior for FBA inventory management, reducing total supply chain costs and making it easier for sellers to get their inventory close to customers, delivering more items with a Prime delivery promise. This leader will invent new ways to deliver value for sellers and their products, while leveraging the scale and innovation of technology from across the Amazon family, including AWS.

We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing our team great flexibility in product and technology direction. Come, join us and build the future!

Key job responsibilities
• You will solve ambiguous business problems and map them to elegant technical solutions
• You will use object-oriented concepts, algorithms and data structures to build systems at Amazon scale
• You will design, launch, and re-architect multi-tier systems with large amounts of data
• You will quickly adapt to fast-paced development environment with bias towards simple and extensible code

Basic qualifications

- 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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- 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

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How we rate this

Software Development Engineer at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● 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. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Development Engineer is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on September 6, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Object Oriented ProgrammingAlgorithmsSystem DesignAWS

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Pay

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