Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Benefits Experience and Technology (BXT)
Amazon · Seattle, WA
$168,100–$227,400from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical lead role within Amazon's internal benefits technology organization, responsible for architecting and delivering one of two flagship AI-native products — either an AI-assisted health plan experience for employees or an agentic system that automates benefits operations work. The position combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, directing both human and AI-generated code, and shaping how generative AI agents are integrated into the development and product lifecycle at large scale.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 190 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 150–250
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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 (7)
The Basic Qualifications gate on 5+ years of software development experience, 5+ years of experience with at least one programming language, and 5+ years of architecture/design leadership — but no specific programming language or technology is named as a hard requirement, making it impossible to extract named-technology must-haves beyond the role-level experience gates.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and MCP (Model Context Protocol) are named as the agentic foundations the team builds on, but they appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than in a formal requirements section, so they are treated as preferred/stack context rather than hard gates.
Generative AI and agentic engineering are central to the role's framing (described as 'a generative-AI and agentic-engineering role first'), but no specific AI framework or tool is listed under Basic Qualifications; AI-related skills are therefore marked preferred.
The posting title is 'Senior Software Development Engineer'; the role functions as a tech lead for a product team, which aligns with Senior rather than Staff — the scope is team-level architecture, not cross-org platform direction.
Bachelor's degree in computer science is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Compensation is stated as a base salary range of $168,100–$227,400 annually, with additional sign-on payments and RSUs noted but not quantified.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development, system design.
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