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Sr Software Development Engineer, Amazon Q

Amazon· Amazon Q / Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
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East Palo Alto, CA$193.3k - $261.5kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Software Development Engineer position focused on building Amazon Q, an AI-powered assistant integrating generative AI with AWS context, retrieval, tools, and actions. Role involves leading design and implementation of highly available, low-latency distributed systems that ground LLMs in customer AWS environments, mentoring teams, and driving architectural decisions across Amazon Q and partner teams.

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.

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
  • - 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience (preferred)
  • - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred)

Skills

Required:Software developmentArchitecture & design leadershipMentorship / technical leadership

Benefits

  • Base salary within USD range for location (USA, CA, East Palo Alto)
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, etc.), 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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