Software Dev Engineer II

Were enhancing the shopping experience on Amazon through the conversational capabilities of large language models and were looking for innovative professionals who are passionate about technology and customer experience. Youll have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the industry while working alongside talented scientists engineers and technical program managers (TPMs) to create solutions that serve our customers.
If youre excited about collaborating with a dynamic team and contributing to this evolving field wed love to have you join us on this journey!


Key job responsibilities
Were looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer with expertise in back-end system and online service to architect design and develop agentic services and applications powered by large language model.
In this role you will build expertise in online service architecture API development and distributed systems that power responsive agentic AI applications at scale. Youll get opportunities to develop service orchestration patterns efficient agent frameworks and real-time processing systems partnering with engineers and scientists in a fast-paced environment to deliver exceptional user experiences. Youll also contribute to our technical roadmap service reliability metrics and optimizations focused on building intelligent agents that can effectively reason plan and execute complex tasks on behalf of users.
In this role youll help establish best practices that improve LLM application efficiency enable new agentic AI features for Stores customers with LLM capabilities. Youll work with your team to design implement large scale distributed agentic AI applications at scale partnering with technical and business leaders in a collaborative environment to create value for our customers. Youll also contribute to prioritization estimation and sprint planning activities.

- 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

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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