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Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Q

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USA, VA, Arlington$168.1k - $227.4kPosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior SDE to help shape Amazon Q, an AI-powered intelligent assistant integrating generative AI with AWS context, retrieval, tools, and actions. Work at intersection of generative AI, agentic systems, and large-scale distributed services to build customer-facing capabilities across AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Build: Design and deliver major Amazon Q capabilities and the highly available, scalable, secure, and low-latency distributed systems that power them. Build systems that connect foundation models with customer context, AWS knowledge, retrieval systems, APIs, tools, and actions.
  • Solve: Tackle ambiguous engineering problems unique to production generative AI, including contextual grounding, agent orchestration, tool execution, retrieval, security boundaries, latency, reliability, and mechanisms for evaluating AI quality and effectiveness.
  • Own: Lead projects end to end—from requirements and architecture through implementation, launch, operations, measurement, and continuous improvement—making thoughtful trade-offs across customer experience, quality, scalability, availability, security, performance, and cost.
  • Lead: Define technical direction for complex initiatives, influence architecture across Amazon Q and partner teams, and simplify systems as they evolve. Drive high engineering standards across design, testing, observability, deployment, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor: Raise the technical bar of the organization through design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, and hands-on development. Mentor engineers and help teams navigate complex architectural and implementation decisions.
  • Innovate: Work with applied scientists, product leaders, and engineering teams to bring advances in foundation models, retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI into production.

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Software developmentLeadership / mentorship

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and other Life/AD&D options, EAP, Mental Health Support, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Sign-on payments and RSUs as part of package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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