Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS
$144K–$224K
New York City, NY +7 · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
Santa Clara, CA
New York, NY
Astoria, NY
Brooklyn, NY
Carle Place, NY
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 3+ years building complex software systems; 2+ years designing and developing large-scale software using one of the listed languages.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
About the job
Develops and maintains software for AWS teams, with candidates considered for current and anticipated SDE openings across a range of engineering areas.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable software and implement solutions to business requirements.
- Collaborate on features and architecture; identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and bugs.
- Review code, document work, 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 for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 3+ years of experience building complex software systems.
- 2+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of ML frameworks including JAX, PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, Dynamo, TorchXLA, and TensorRT.
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, and Python and/or C++ programming.
Pay
165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually (base salary); 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, JAX, PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang
AI focus
Potential AI/ML engineering roles; preferred knowledge includes ML frameworks and Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques.
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