Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick

About the role

As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon Quick team, you will design, develop, and optimize core platform components that power a generative AI assistant for enterprises. Your work will ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability while enabling businesses to leverage AI for enhanced operations and data-driven decision-making. You’ll collaborate with AI/ML practitioners, applied scientists, and solution architects to build foundational AI services that solve complex customer challenges in a fast-moving, startup-like environment within a large company.

Responsibilities

• Build trend-setting features in Amazon Quick that address the hardest engineering challenges in generative AI.
• Design and deliver large-scale, scalable, fault-tolerant systems with machine learning-powered solutions.
• Drive strategic technical projects with significant business impact and competitive advantage.
• Mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical issues using deep and broad technical expertise.
• Work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment within a large company to rapidly deliver services with broad business impact.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object-Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Pay

Base salary range: $165,200 – $223,600 USD annually (Santa Clara, CA).