Software Development Engineer, AWS Transform

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, AWS Transform in Dallas, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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With roughly seven out of eight enterprise workloads still running on-premises or on mainframe, the opportunity to help the world's largest organizations move to the cloud is enormous. AWS Transform is building a platform that combines AI-driven automation with deep infrastructure and software engineering to analyze, plan, and execute large-scale application migrations. As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will work across the full stack, from designing the distributed systems and services that power migration workflows to building the intelligent agents that reason about complex legacy environments.

You will own the design and delivery of features and components, from understanding customer needs through implementation, testing, and production operations. You will work with senior engineers on system design, write high-quality, well-tested code, and help operate the services you build. Your work will directly shape how enterprises move their most critical workloads to AWS. You will collaborate closely with senior engineers, product managers, and customer-facing teams to make sure what you build turns into real customer outcomes. If you are excited about solving hard, high-impact problems with strong engineering fundamentals and applied AI skills, we would love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
Design, build, and operate distributed services and AI-powered agents that analyze legacy codebases, plan migration strategies, and execute transformations end to end.
Drive the end-to-end design of the features you own, making trade-offs across scalability, performance, and security, and communicate across teams to influence architectural decisions on shared interfaces and infrastructure.
Write well-documented, production-quality code that sets an example for others, and make sure solutions are testable and easy for others to extend.
Play a key technical role on the team in aligning engineering work with customer needs, turning requirements into product features and delivering them incrementally.
Mentor teammates through design and code reviews, foster engineering best practices, and take part in interviewing and recruiting.

A day in the life
Your morning might start with a design review where you present your approach for a new service component that automates a migration step previously done by hand. After working through the details with a senior engineer, you shift to writing and reviewing code, working on infrastructure plumbing one hour and refining an agent's decision logic the next. In the afternoon you meet with your product manager and a customer-facing teammate to go over feedback from an enterprise customer pilot and turn it into improvements for your feature. You wrap up by updating operational dashboards and tuning alerts for a service you helped launch.

About the team
AWS Transform sits within the Agentic AI organization at Amazon Web Services and is focused on building the next generation of autonomous migration services. The team partners closely with go-to-market, professional services, and enterprise customers to turn complex modernization challenges into repeatable, well-engineered solutions that blend systems infrastructure with applied AI.

We are at an early and exciting stage of product development, which means your contributions will directly shape the platform's architecture and roadmap. We value curiosity, collaboration, and a willingness to experiment, and we are committed to building an inclusive environment where every team member can do their best work.

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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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, TX, Dallas - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, AWS Transform at Amazon rates 14 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

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