Software Development Engineer, CE Tech

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

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Level rates this software engineer role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
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AI in this role

Application deadline: Nov 10, 2026

Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas and building innovative solutions? Are you drawn to take on the hardest problems, navigate ambiguity, and battle skepticism? Then this is the role for you.

The CE Tech organization's mission is to make Amazon the preferred destination for customers to discover and purchase high consideration products and services. We accomplish this by developing a deep understanding of our customers (consumers and businesses), our suppliers, and our organization. We use generative AI (GenAI) to make our engineering teams more productive, and to make the shopping experience better for our customers.

We are pushing on what GenAI can actually do, and we are embedding it across the entire software development life cycle — not just writing code, but design, testing, code review, operations, and how we learn what customers need. If you have ideas in that space, or you look at how fast teams are moving with GenAI and think it should be faster, you will have the environment to experiment, learn, and deploy your solution to production.

Come be a part of our product development team! We are seeking a technically skilled engineer who can influence across teams to help bring the products customers want into their hands, all around the globe.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate customer-facing services end to end — from design document through launch, and through the operational life of the service afterward.
- Design generative AI systems that coordinate several agents toward a goal, deciding what each agent owns, how work passes between them, where the loop terminates, and which parts of the problem stay in deterministic code.
- Build the evaluation, guardrails, and observability that show a non-deterministic system is behaving correctly before a customer ever sees it.
- Apply generative AI across your own development workflow — design, implementation, testing, code review, and operational triage, and bring the techniques that work back to the rest of the team.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and engineering teams elsewhere in Amazon to turn ambiguous customer problems into launched features.

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, CO, Denver - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, CE Tech at Amazon rates 62 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● 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.