Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, Rufus Engineering
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and scale AI-powered shopping experiences on Amazon Search, including LLM content generation workflows, from prototypes and experiments through launch.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and deliver software features in a large distributed computing environment.
- Build LLM-based content generation workflows and partner with Applied Scientists on prompt tuning and evaluations.
- Own features end-to-end, improve latency, quality, and monetization, and mentor junior developers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 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.
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the full software development life cycle.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
AI focus
Build LLM-based content generation workflows and partner with Applied Scientists on prompt tuning and evaluations.
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