Software Development Engineer III, WW Sustainability

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer III, WW Sustainability in Seattle, United States. It pays $168k-$227k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Join us at the forefront of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon’s scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company.

Amazon's Worldwide Sustainability Tech team is building the science and technology infrastructure that makes our sustainability commitments real — auditable, automated, and actionable at Amazon's scale. At the center of that infrastructure is the Carbon Intelligence Platform: the system that calculates emissions across Amazon's businesses, powers planning and abatement decision-making, and serves external sustainability products for partners and customers outside Amazon.

The agentic data mesh team is building a reusable governed knowledge layer and semantic interface so agents can retrieve cited, traceable answers across domains. You will partner with research and sustainability scientists whose methodologies — increasingly AI and ML-enabled — your team implements in production. You will be the tech lead driving AI-native engineering projects, one that builds AI/ML systems in production and uses AI-native development and testing as standard workflow, measuring success by the pace at which new capabilities reach customers reliably.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop AI native systems and features that report Amazon's environmental footprint as well as other Social and Governance metrics, to internal stakeholders and external regulatory bodies.
- Operationally maintain the systems you build with a strong sense of Ownership, Bias for Action, and Customer Obsession.
- Contribute to improving the teams broader SDLC processes.

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ 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, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer III, WW Sustainability at Amazon rates 29 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.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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