Amazon
Software Dev Engineer II, Programming Foundations
$144K–$194K
Boston, MA +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA - Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years design or architecture; 1+ years software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years large-scale software development using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years Object Oriented Design. Preferred: 3+ years full software development life cycle.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and maintain shared developer tools, programming language infrastructure, libraries, and frameworks used by Amazon engineers across the company.
What you'll do
- Design and build developer tools, and improve the usability and reliability of languages and libraries.
- Maintain build tools, compilers, libraries, and frameworks; contribute to upstream open-source projects.
- Collaborate with engineers to address developer pain points, write and review code, and help debug tool issues.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale software 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; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
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