AmazonSoftware Development Engineer, Special Projects
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Special Projects in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions Bedrock and AI agents among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a mid-level role.
- Amazon has 20,000+ other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
As a Software Development Engineer, you will own features end to end, from the design doc to production: the LLM agents and the tools they call on Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, the TypeScript/React application our customers use every day, and the AWS infrastructure beneath it. There is no legacy system to work around and no finished roadmap handed down; you will help set both. You'll work alongside some of the most talented scientists, product managers and designers at Amazon. The scientists own the science and you own the product, so no science background is needed: we need engineers who like to ship, and who want the scope that comes with an early team.
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.
Key job responsibilities
- Own major parts of a greenfield product end to end, from design through launch and operation, working directly with product and science partners to understand customer problems and build the right solutions
- Build LLM agents and the tools they call on Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, and measure their quality with automated evaluations
- Build the customer-facing TypeScript/React application, including the interfaces where people work with AI agents: streaming responses, tool calls, and reviewing and correcting agent output
- Design new services while the architecture is still being set, and write the design docs that shape the team's technical direction
- Run what you build: take part in operational support, alarming and monitoring, and make sure root causes are found and fixed
- Build the mechanisms that let a small team ship fast and safely: CI/CD pipelines, per-change preview environments, automated evaluations, and a high bar on security and resilience
- Earn trust with design, product, science, and engineering partners, demonstrating empathy, candor, and backbone through all levels of communication
A day in the life
- Taking a feature from a rough idea to production in days, not quarters
- Collaborating closely with applied scientists, designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn concepts into high-quality, scalable code
- Working across the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, UX review, code implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Designing how people and AI agents work together on screen, and testing it with the people who will use it
- Balancing speed of execution with architectural requirements and user experience considerations
- Using AI coding agents as an everyday part of how we build, and continuously learning to keep pace with the technology and our customers' needs
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational 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
- 2+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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
- Experience in successful technology product work from ideation through launch
- Experience building applications on large language models (LLMs) or AI agents
- Experience across the full stack: a TypeScript/React front end, backend services, and AWS infrastructure as code (CDK or CloudFormation)
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, Special Projects at Amazon rates 17 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
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.
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