Software Dev Engineer II, Programming Foundations

Join the Programming Foundations Team within Amazon Builder Experience as a Software Development Engineer. Our team owns the languages libraries and tools that Amazon builders use daily to write their software. We work on Java Python Rust TypeScript and C language support along with libraries like Coral (Amazons service framework) and LPT (LivePipelineTemplates an infrastructure-as-code tool). We also build and maintain developer tools including VSCode and IntelliJ plugins CRUX (Code Review User Experience Amazons code review system) and DevSpaces (cloud-based development environments).

In this role you will build tools that help thousands of engineers across Amazon write test and review their code.


Key job responsibilities
As AI agents take on more software development work they need the same organizational context that human engineers rely onproject decisions captured in Slack threads meeting notes in Outlook design discussions on Zoom and team structures across corporate directories. You will build the connective tissue between these productivity tools and AI-powered development environments like AgentSpaces and ClawSpaces giving coding agents direct access to the rich context thats currently trapped in siloed systems. The result: engineers can delegate more complex tasks to agents and spend less time manually assembling the context those agents need to do their jobs well.

A day in the life
Your work will directly affect how builders at Amazon do their jobs. As you help builders move faster youre helping Amazon deliver and innovate. This is practical work that requires understanding what builders actually need and building tools that solve their problems without getting in the way.

About the team
The Programming Foundations Team is part of Amazon Builder Experience. We work on the basic tools and infrastructure that builders use to write software. Our team includes engineers who care about developer experience and want to make building software at Amazon easier. We do not own customer-facing products directly but our work affects every team that builds software at Amazon. We focus on doing useful work rather than flashy projects. If you like building tools that help other engineers and want to work on problems that span the whole company this team might be a good fit.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually