Software Development Engineer
Amazon · Seattle, WA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role focused on building data infrastructure, API primitives, and automation for Amazon's employee onboarding and contingency services, replacing legacy third-party systems with modern, serverless AWS-based solutions. The work spans the full development lifecycle — design, coding, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and monitoring — at a scale serving hundreds of thousands of employees globally. Suited to early-career engineers with at least one year of professional development experience.
Junior level · 1+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (5)
The Basic Qualifications gate on only 1+ year of non-internship professional software development experience and proficiency in at least one programming language — no specific language is named, so the skill is listed generically as required.
AWS, CI/CD, GenAI/Agentic AI, and serverless architecture appear in the job responsibilities narrative rather than in a formal requirements section, so they are treated as preferred/contextual stack rather than hard gates.
A Bachelor's degree in computer science is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The title 'Software Development Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, and the minimum bar (1+ year) maps to a Junior band despite the broad scope described in the responsibilities narrative.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): serverless architecture.
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