Software Development Engineer, Amazon Brand Store at Amazon
Seattle, WA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack software engineering role focused on building AI-driven brand discovery features within Amazon's advertising platform, covering both back-end recommendation pipelines and customer-facing front-end surfaces. The work spans API design, data modeling, front-end rendering, and metrics instrumentation, with ownership extending to system reliability, on-call participation, and post-incident reviews. Suited to engineers comfortable operating across the entire stack at large scale.
Mid level · 3+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,600 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,700–9,900
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role's minimum experience gate is 3+ years of professional software development, which places it at the lower end of Mid-level; the 2-year design/architecture requirement and 1-year distributed systems requirement are consistent with that band.
The language requirement (C#, C++, Java, or Perl) is stated as a hard gate but is explicitly interchangeable — any one of the four satisfies it; C# is listed first and used as the primary skill name with the others in alternatives.
The posting describes a full-stack role spanning back-end recommendation pipelines and customer-facing front-end surfaces, but no specific front-end framework (e.g. React) is named as a requirement anywhere in the JD.
A Bachelor's degree in computer science is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Compensation is quoted as an annual base salary range of $143,700–$194,400 for Seattle, WA, plus sign-on payments and RSUs per the posting.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): object-oriented design, system design, full-stack development.
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