Amazon
Software Development Engineer II
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year developing specified large-scale software; 1+ year of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Designs, develops, deploys, and operates scalable software features and systems for Amazon customers, while contributing to architecture, reliability, and team engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Build and operate software across the development lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through deployment and ongoing maintenance.
- Work with customers and cross-functional teams to turn business needs into scalable technical solutions; participate in design reviews and evaluate technologies.
- Review code, mentor teammates, and resolve operational issues to improve software quality and system reliability.
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 developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services 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 in at least one software 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
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
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