Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick
$193K–$262K
Santa Clara, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the stated software development, programming, and system design/architecture areas; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads architecture and delivery of distributed services powering Amazon Quick’s AI resource skills platform and catalog, from authoring and discovery to publishing and administration.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for distributed services and lead cross-team initiatives from design through production.
- Build and operate data-platform infrastructure, including data instrumentation, quality, lineage, and visibility capabilities.
- Improve service reliability and engineering standards; lead incident response 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 the 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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS
AI focus
Builds services for AI-powered, agentic resources, including their authoring, discovery, publishing, versioning, installation, and organizational management.
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