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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Senior Software Engineer - AI Acceleration

Full-Time
$168.1k - $227.4k/yr+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units (RSUs)
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Seattle, WA, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering, Backend Engineering
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.
  • Experience with AWS or cloud technologies.
Responsibilities
  • Embed with internal teams to scope, design, and ship AI-powered productivity solutions into production within their workflows and constraints.
  • Define success with each team and remain accountable until the solution is live, adopted, and delivering the agreed productivity result.
  • Deliver a working production deployment quickly, then enable the team to operate and build on the solution over time.
  • Turn engagement learnings into reusable platform capabilities, agents, software development kits, and patterns when applicable.
  • Identify high-value productivity use cases and partner with domain experts to build agentic workflows and systems.
  • Track AI methodologies and tooling, bring relevant approaches to Amazon Games, and act as an evangelist and change agent.
  • Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AI solutions using native AWS, including high-scale API infrastructure.
  • Ensure enterprise-grade security, compliance, and responsible AI underpin every solution.
  • Design, develop, and operate systems and agents that integrate proprietary and third-party models into internal teams' daily work.
  • Translate ambiguous real-world problems into working technical solutions and write production code in the stack required for the work.
  • Feed learnings from team engagements back into shared platform and tooling.
Desired Qualifications
  • At least 5 years of full software development life-cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • At least 4 years of Games Industry experience supporting title development, release, or live operations.
  • A master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale.

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
  • Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
  • Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
  • Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
  • Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.

What makes Amazon unique

  • Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
  • Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
  • Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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