SDE II, Field Innovation Team

The Field Innovation team is a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) group inside AWS. We work directly with customers and AWS service teams to build next-generation capabilities that help the worlds largest enterprises get faster return on value from security search observability and governance services.
We are hiring builders who wants to work at the intersection of customer impact and cutting-edge AI. You will design and ship commercial-grade products powered by modern AI technologies including large language models AI-assisted development tools and emerging frameworks. From day one your code will be in production and your architectural decisions will shape how Fortune 500 companies operate.

A day in the life
Your impact here will be immediate and visible. You will ship features that directly change how customers run their businesses not wait 18 months to see your work in production. The team is small enough that your decisions carry real weight and large enough that you will always have someone to learn from. You will drive technical decisions around architecture frameworks and AI implementation strategies for projects that matter.
AI is not a side experiment on this team. It is a core part of the stack. You will build with large language models AI-assisted development tools agent frameworks and retrieval-augmented generation as everyday engineering primitives. You will design and build robust scalable software that Fortune 500 companies rely on partner directly with AWS service teams to identify high-impact customer problems and ship solutions end-to-end.
We operate across security observability search and governance but you do not need a background in any of them. What you need is curiosity a bias for action and a desire to work on the bleeding edge of technology. This is a team of engineers and scientists who care about craft customer outcomes and having fun doing the work.
Growth here is by design not by accident. We assign projects based on what will stretch you. A broad mix of experience levels and a genuine culture of mentorship means you will level up fast take on increasingly complex challenges and develop into a more well-rounded engineer with every quarter.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of experience designing or architecting systems (design patterns reliability scaling).
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Java Python C Go Rust TypeScript or similar).
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or services.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- Experience with AI/ML technologies: large language models prompt engineering vector databases or ML inference pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with the full software development lifecycle: code reviews CI/CD testing and operational excellence.
- Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda ECS DynamoDB Bedrock SageMaker or similar cloud platforms).
- Track record of delivering customer-facing features end-to-end with high quality and velocity.
- Experience working in small fast-moving teams where you wore multiple hats.

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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 VA Herndon - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually