Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Santa Clara, CA · Software Development

Senior Software Development Engineer role on the Amazon Quick team, focusing on building features for a generative AI-powered assistant that transforms enterprise productivity by answering questions, summarizing content, generating text, and completing tasks based on enterprise data. The role involves designing, developing, and optimizing core platform components for high performance, scalability, and reliability, with an emphasis on agentic AI and foundational AI services.

What you'd actually do

  1. build features in Amazon Quick that is going to be trend setting in the Gen AI field.
  2. solving the hardest engineering challenges to enable machine learning powered solutions for our customers.
  3. deliver large scalable systems, design new software systems and have a significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position.
  4. mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical issues.
  5. get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and help shape the technology, product and the business.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice to have

  • Experience with machine learning systems is preferred, but not required.
  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

What the JD emphasized

  • hardest engineering challenges
  • scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant
  • deep technical and software expertise
  • industry wide impact
  • fast moving, startup environment

Other signals

  • generative AI
  • AI-powered assistant
  • enterprise data
  • secure connectors
  • AI/ML practitioners
  • foundational AI services
  • Agentic AI