
Software Development Engineer III, WW Sustainability
Seattle, WAJob$168–227K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Amazon’s Worldwide Sustainability Tech team builds science and technology infrastructure for sustainability commitments, including the Carbon Intelligence Platform. The Software Development Engineer III will lead AI-native engineering projects for a governed knowledge layer and semantic interface, partnering with research and sustainability scientists to implement methodologies in production. The role focuses on systems that report environmental footprint and social and governance metrics to internal stakeholders and external regulatory bodies.
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Description
Join us at the forefront of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon’s scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company.
Amazon's Worldwide Sustainability Tech team is building the science and technology infrastructure that makes our sustainability commitments real — auditable, automated, and actionable at Amazon's scale. At the center of that infrastructure is the Carbon Intelligence Platform: the system that calculates emissions across Amazon's businesses, powers planning and abatement decision-making, and serves external sustainability products for partners and customers outside Amazon.
The agentic data mesh team is building a reusable governed knowledge layer and semantic interface so agents can retrieve cited, traceable answers across domains. You will partner with research and sustainability scientists whose methodologies — increasingly AI and ML-enabled — your team implements in production. You will be the tech lead driving AI-native engineering projects, one that builds AI/ML systems in production and uses AI-native development and testing as standard workflow, measuring success by the pace at which new capabilities reach customers reliably.
Key job responsibilities
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Design and develop AI native systems and features that report Amazon's environmental footprint as well as other Social and Governance metrics, to internal stakeholders and external regulatory bodies.
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Operationally maintain the systems you build with a strong sense of Ownership, Bias for Action, and Customer Obsession.
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Contribute to improving the teams broader SDLC processes.
Basic Qualifications
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5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
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5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
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5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
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Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
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5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 1,386 open Software Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$168–227K/yr
- Washington median$144–194K/yr460 salary ranges
- US median$144–194K/yr1,267 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $198K, is 17% above the Washington median midpoint ($169K) — in the top quarter of Software Development Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 466 open Software Development Engineer jobs in Washington and 1,386 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,220 postings).
- Education
- 576 of the 1,386 open Software Development Engineer jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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