Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
SEATTLE, WA - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the listed software development, programming, and design or architecture areas; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of full-stack, generative AI-powered Brand Stores experiences for advertisers and shoppers, including architecture, APIs, and platform reliability at Amazon scale.
What you'll do
- Own architectural decisions and technical direction for AI-powered store creation, optimization, and shopping experiences.
- Build and maintain full-stack applications and APIs, ensuring quality, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaborate across teams, establish engineering practices, use data to improve customer outcomes, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
Applies generative AI to brand store creation, personalization, optimization, shopping experiences, performance analysis, and customer insights; the team aims to create an agentic store-building experience.
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