Drimva

Amazon

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Shopping (Rufus)

$168K–$262K

Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 15, 2026

Location
Seattle, WA
Palo Alto, CA
Experience
5+ years in each of the specified software development, programming, and system design/architecture areas.

About the job

Build and operate large-scale, LLM-powered agentic services and applications that improve Amazon’s conversational shopping experience.

What you'll do

  • Architect, design, and develop distributed agentic applications, online services, and APIs.
  • Develop service orchestration, agent frameworks, and real-time processing systems; improve application efficiency and reliability.
  • Contribute to technical roadmaps and planning, partnering with engineers, scientists, and business leaders.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead; knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques.

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
  • Experience building or operating LLM-powered agent systems, agent evaluation frameworks, or large-scale LLM hosting and serving.

Pay

USD 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 annually (base salary); USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary)

Tools

large language models, LLM, Machine Learning, transformer architecture, vLLM, TensorRT

AI focus

Develop agentic AI applications for shopping, including agent reasoning, planning, task execution, orchestration, evaluation, and LLM application efficiency.

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