Amazon
Software Dev Engineer III, Programming Foundations
$168K–$227K
Boston, MA +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA - Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience requirements; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and maintain shared programming-language tools, libraries, compilers, and frameworks that improve the developer experience for Amazon engineers.
What you'll do
- Design and build developer tools and maintain build tools, compilers, libraries, and frameworks.
- Collaborate across Amazon, contribute to upstream open-source projects, and address engineers’ tooling needs.
- Write and review code, help debug tools, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming 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 leading 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)
Tools
programming languages, build tools, compilers, libraries, frameworks, OSS
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