Software Development Engineer, Amazon Customer Service

About the role

At Amazon, customer obsession is at the core of what we do. We value your creativity, initiative, and ability to innovate and deliver results as we strive to continuously improve the customer experience.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will collaborate with senior software engineers to enhance our technology and design, while developing innovative services that enable our organization to launch Customer Service Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guided-Workflow features.

You will be responsible for the global expansion of these services, including implementing instrumentation to monitor metrics and ensure high-quality outcomes. Your solutions will aim to deliver an unparalleled customer service experience by leveraging next-generation engineering and machine learning systems.

This includes harnessing the power of Generative AI (GenAI) for enhanced issue understanding, automated resolutions, and guided workflows. In this role, you will collaborate with business partners and leadership, contribute to shaping the product vision, and take the lead in designing robust systems.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment, and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Ability to design and code the right solutions, starting with broadly-defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the services owned by the Software team.
• Use Scrum, test-driven development, and continuous deployment to deliver projects based on realistic timelines and resource constraints.

A day in the life

You will work closely with senior leaders across cross-functional stakeholder teams within Amazon to drive collaboration, influence them to prioritize projects, and ensure they adhere to business plans aligned with shared objectives.

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 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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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