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 Software Development Engineer who is excited to build generative AI products that customers use every day. You will design and ship features end to end working across customer-facing experiences distributed services and the cloud infrastructure behind them. Experience with generative AI is a plus but strong engineering fundamentals and a desire to learn quickly 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 solve them.
- Broad scope: You will work across the stack and see your features through from design to production.
- Enterprise scale with startup speed: We ship frequently to customers with high expectations for availability performance and security.
- Growth: You will work alongside experienced engineers applied scientists and product leaders with mentorship and room to take on more ownership as you grow.

Key job responsibilities
- Design build test and deploy features for Amazon Quick from customer-facing experiences to the backend services and infrastructure behind them.
- Build highly available scalable and secure distributed systems on AWS.
- Work with product managers designers applied scientists and other engineers to turn customer needs into working software.
- Own the quality and operational health of what you build including testing monitoring and on-call.
- Use generative AI tools in your daily work and help improve the quality and reliability of AI-powered features.
- Participate in code and design reviews and mentor other engineers.

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.

- 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

- 3 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
- Experience building services using AWS products
- Experience in professional non-internship software development or experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals including architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization of model execution

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 - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually