Amazon
Software Dev Engineer II, Programming Foundations
$144K–$194K
Arlington, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ year as a software development engineer or related occupation; and 1+ year designing and developing large-scale software using a listed language.
- 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, languages, libraries, and build infrastructure used by Amazon engineers across the company.
What you'll do
- Design and build tools that help Amazon engineers develop software; improve the usability and reliability of languages and libraries.
- Maintain build tools, compilers, package managers, and 3PSW repository mirrors.
- Collaborate with engineers to address their needs, 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 for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; at least 1 year 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 across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- 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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