Amazon
Software Development Engineer
$144K–$224K
Arlington, VA +4 · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Seattle, WA
Santa Clara, CA
Raleigh, NC
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 3+ years non-internship professional software development; 2+ years non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years SDE or related occupational experience; 1+ years designing and developing specified software applications, tools, systems, or services.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Develop and maintain software for AWS teams across a range of engineering domains, from cloud and distributed systems to embedded development and AI/ML.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable software; implement solutions that meet business requirements.
- Collaborate across teams on features and system design, and diagnose performance issues and bugs.
- Participate in design reviews, improve engineering processes, and mentor junior engineers.
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 applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; plus 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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
AI focus
Potential AWS SDE roles include Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Healthcare AI; specific AI duties are not stated.
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