Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Applied AI Solutions

About the role

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

On Agentic WorkSpaces our vision is to enable AI agents to work the way humans do. AI agents are no longer chatbots waiting for prompts. They're digital workers - processing claims reconciling invoices securing infrastructure. And they need the same things every employee needs: identity permissions governance and a trusted place to operate. Our team builds the platform which enables enterprise agents to safely execute autonomous work in governed environments.

We're looking for an SDE II who can ramp quickly deliver features end-to-end and thrive in greenfield work. Much of what we're building doesn't exist yet. You'll take early designs to production make pragmatic calls about what to build versus what to compose from existing AWS services and ship on a schedule tied to real customer milestones.

The pace is high and the roadmap is concrete with re:Invent deliverables targeted for this year. The team is small enough that your work goes to production fast and visibly. If you like owning features from design through production and want your work to be the reason enterprises trust AI agents this team is for you.

Key job responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end: design implement test deploy and operate in production * Build new services for policy enforcement session recording and replay and human-in-the-loop approval workflows * Integrate with AWS services and make build-vs-compose decisions with your team * Handle customer content with care: recording pipelines retention and access controls where correctness is the product * Collaborate with engineers on adjacent teams to unblock dependencies and align on interfaces * Contribute to operational excellence: oncall runbooks alarms and incident response

A day in the life

• Your mornings are usually free for focus work - writing code reviewing CRs and working through whatever problem you've picked up.
• Around 11 AM, you'll have standup then grab lunch with the team (if you like) before the afternoon opens up for integration work cross-team syncs or design reviews.
• The team is small so you'll know what everyone is working on and when something breaks the whole team rallies.

• Our pipelines are full CD our ticket queue is small and when something pages us we fix the root cause - not just the symptom.
• We encourage responsible AI usage across our development workflow - it's one way our team moves fast.
• The problems are interesting and the pace is high but we believe we can move fast do exceptional work and have a full life outside of it.

Basic Qualifications

• 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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually