Software Development Engineer, AWS Quick Business Intelligence
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, AWS Quick Business Intelligence in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
You will be part of a QuickSight team to grow its business intelligence platform. The team is innovating the next generation of business intelligence, leveraging agentic AI to reinvent how customers explore, analyze, visualize, and act on their data through a unified, serverless BI experience. We have just started on this journey and have a lot of autonomy in delivering the future of cloud-based business intelligence. You'll have the opportunity to influence decisions related to system architecture, feature development, and product strategy, and to design and build complex distributed systems with AWS Serverless and microservice architecture. The team has plenty of opportunities to learn from the best in the industry and grow your career, since this is a high visibility and strategic project.
Our next journey is agentic AI. We are building and delivering the foundational AI services that let customers transform their businesses and harness the potential of AI to solve their most complex challenges, bringing agentic experiences to the way they explore and act on their data. You'll work alongside a dynamic team of AI/ML practitioners, applied scientists, software engineers, and solution architects who work backwards from customer needs to create innovative technologies. If you're passionate about shaping the future of AI while making a meaningful impact for customers worldwide, we want to hear from you.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Help define the system architecture and technical direction for our business intelligence platform, owning and implementing significant components end to end while shaping the broader connectivity and integration roadmap.
- Design and build complex, scalable distributed systems using AWS Serverless and microservice architecture, making decisions that impact the platform's long-term vision.
- Drive work across the full software lifecycle, planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and continuous process improvement, as a member of an autonomous, high-ownership team.
- Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product goals under ambiguity and balancing near-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
- Define, document, and champion engineering best practices, raising the bar for code quality, operational excellence, and team-wide technical standards.
- Collaborate with product managers, applied scientists, and fellow engineers to translate customer needs into differentiated capabilities, including the agentic AI experiences that define the next generation of BI.
- Mentor and elevate other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance, multiplying the impact of the team.
A day in the life
A typical day mixes focused building with close collaboration. You might begin at a design review, working through an architecture proposal with fellow engineers, then sit with product managers and UX designers to shape how a new capability should look and behave for customers. From there you move into planning and designing your own components, then building and testing them, from the query and semantic layer through visualization and the agentic AI experiences that let customers explore their data conversationally. Because you own what you build, you also monitor your services in production, investigate issues, and keep improving how the platform scales to tens of thousands of users worldwide.
About the team
We are the team building the next generation of QuickSight's business intelligence platform. Our mission is to reinvent how customers explore, analyze, visualize, and act on their data, moving beyond dashboards toward a unified, serverless, agentic BI experience. We are early in this journey, so the work is high-ownership and high-impact. We work backwards from customer needs, care deeply about technical excellence, and give every engineer room to grow. We value work-life harmony. Success at work should never come at the expense of home, which is why flexibility is part of our culture.
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
- 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
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of machine learning model architecture and inference
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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
How we rate this
Software Development Engineer, AWS Quick Business Intelligence at Amazon rates 15 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.
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
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