Software Development Engineer II

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

Level's read on this job

Level rates this software engineer role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
The posting mentions Java, AWS and AI agents among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

Design and build distributed backend services for pricing while utilizing and developing AI-native development tools and workflows.

JavaAWS

ai-agentsdistributed-systemsbackendsoftware-engineering

Do you want to build the systems that power pricing for millions of business customers — and reinvent how those systems get built at the same time? We're an engineering team inside Amazon Business, and we own the platform behind how business pricing works: the services that decide, calculate, and deliver the right price at scale.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you'll own real problems end to end. You'll design and build distributed backend services on AWS, make them faster and more reliable, and take on the harder challenge underneath all of it — keeping a large, always-on platform efficient and cost-effective as it grows. You won't just pick up tickets; you'll take ambiguous problems, shape the approach, and drive them from design through to production.

What makes this role different is that we're also rethinking how we engineer. We're early adopters of AI-native development — building AI tools, chat bots, and agentic workflows that make our whole team faster and our operations more reliable. You'll get to use these tools daily, and you'll help build them. It's a rare mix: deep systems ownership on one side, and a genuine mandate to shape the future of software development on the other.

You'll work closely with engineers, product managers, and partner teams across regions, review and raise the bar on each other's work, and mentor others as you grow. If you like owning a domain, writing code that reaches customers worldwide, and being at the front of the AI shift in engineering, this is a great place to do the best work of your career.

Key job responsibilities
* You will participate in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.

* You will evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing technologies and tools, and you’ll coach and mentor junior development engineers.

* You will directly work with Senior Engineers and Principal Engineers in the org to define our architecture plans for the next three years.

* You will be driving team to make decisions on build vs re-use by collaborating with Retail and Seller Pricing teams.

* You will be responsible for setting standards and mechanisms for handling operational load.

A day in the life
Designing and reviewing architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency; writing and shipping production code across Java backend services and AWS infrastructure; building or improving AI-native developer tooling (agents, chat bots, automated workflows); reviewing teammates' CRs and design docs; and collaborating with product managers and partner teams (US/EU) during the shared afternoon working window. A balance of hands-on building, platform/architecture ownership, and applying AI to move the whole team faster.

About the team
Team Vortex is part of Amazon Business Flywheel Inputs (ABFI), based in Hyderabad. We own core platform charters behind Amazon Business pricing — responsible for scaling the architecture, improving reliability, and continuously reducing total cost of ownership. We're a delivery-focused, customer-obsessed team and an early adopter of AI-native engineering: we build and use AI tools, chat bots, and agentic workflows to raise developer productivity and operational health. Engineers here get broad ownership, real cross-team impact, and active investment in their growth.

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
- 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 II at Amazon rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● 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 II is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in IN, TS, Hyderabad.
The job was posted on September 22, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agentsDistributed SystemsBackendSoftware EngineeringJavaAWS

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Pay

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Walk me through how you've used Java in your day-to-day work.

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