Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick is an agentic AI work companion that helps business users find answers get insights from their data and automate their work across web desktop and mobile. It brings AI agents enterprise knowledge and everyday business tools together in one place so people can go from question to action without switching contexts. Quick is one of Amazons most strategic products it is live with enterprise customers and it is growing fast.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead the design and delivery of major parts of the Quick platform. You will own the architecture of large customer-facing features end to end from the experience users touch to the distributed services and cloud infrastructure behind them and you will raise the engineering bar for the team around you. Experience with generative AI is a plus but strong system design skills sound technical judgment and a track record of leading complex projects matter most.

Why you will love this role:
- Build not maintain: Quick is in customers hands but many of the hardest problems in agentic AI are still being solved and you will help define how they are solved.
- Technical leadership: You will set technical direction for your area drive designs through review and mentor engineers across the team.
- Enterprise scale with startup speed: We ship frequently to customers with high expectations for availability performance and security.
- High visibility: You will work closely with senior engineers applied scientists and product leaders on initiatives that are core to Amazon Quick.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design and architecture of large customer-facing features for Amazon Quick from the user experience to the distributed services and cloud infrastructure behind them.
- Decide what to build with product managers and senior leaders and turn ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and milestones.
- Design highly available scalable and secure distributed systems on AWS and make sound trade-offs between speed cost and quality.
- Drive engineering best practices across the team including design reviews code reviews testing operational excellence and documentation.
- Own the operational health of your systems and lead deep dives into the hardest production issues.
- Use generative AI tools in your daily work and help improve the quality and reliability of AI-powered features.
- Mentor engineers and help grow the next generation of technical leaders on the team.

You will work with a variety of languages and technologies such as Python TypeScript and Java on AWS.

About the team
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

- 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

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Santa Clara - 193300.00 - 261500.00 USD annually