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Software Development Engineer, PXT Central Science

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Compensation
$144–194K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Amazon’s People Experience and Technology Central Science team turns science-driven insights and machine learning models into production systems that support its workforce. The Software Development Engineer works with economists, data scientists, data engineers, and applied scientists to build reliable, scalable systems, with work spanning benefits, compensation, recruiting, employee feedback, management practices, and organizational culture.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

System DesignSystem ArchitectureSoftware Development LifecycleProgrammingJavaObject-Oriented ProgrammingMicroservicesClient Application EngineeringAWS LambdaAmazon EC2Amazon S3Amazon DynamoDB

Qualifications

2+ Years System Design Experience2+ Years Software Development Lifecycle Experience3+ Years Software Development Lifecycle ExperienceBachelor's in Computer Science or Equivalent

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Description

Amazon's People Experience and Technology Central Science (PXTCS) team uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, machine learning, and Generative AI to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements that simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well-being, and value of work for Amazonians. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary team that combines the talents of science, engineering, and UX to build and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal — at a scale that touches over 1.5 million Amazonians worldwide.

As a Software Development Engineer on PXTCS, you'll work side by side with economists, data scientists, data engineers, and applied scientists turning leading-edge ML and Generative AI models into reliable, scalable production systems.

This is a rare chance to see your code directly shape how Amazon supports its workforce, spanning areas like benefits, compensation, recruiting, voice of employee, management practices, and organizational culture. We offer opportunities for builders to build and make history!

Key job responsibilities

  • Work with teams across the org to deliver large distributed projects to delight our customers

  • Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages

  • Build highly available, secure, systems in a microservices architecture

  • Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry

  • Own and operate the systems that you build

  • Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement

  • Get firsthand experience engineering client apps as well as AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB and others

A day in the life

  • Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"

  • Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement

  • Get firsthand experience engineering client apps as well as AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB and others

About the team

PXTCS combines economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements that improve both Amazon's operations and the experience of every Amazonian. Its engineering teams take science-driven insights and models — spanning areas like benefits, compensation, recruiting, voice of employee, management practices, and organizational culture — and turn them into production systems operating at Amazon's scale. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary group where engineering, applied science, and product work side-by-side, and where this team's output directly shapes how Amazon supports its workforce.

Basic Qualifications

  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

  • 2+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

  • 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 .

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,328 open Software Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$144–194K/yr
  • California median$165–224K/yr174 salary ranges
  • US median$144–194K/yr1,213 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $169K, is 13% below the California median midpoint ($194K) — in the middle half of Software Development Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 184 open Software Development Engineer jobs in California and 1,328 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 1,185 postings).
Education
591 of the 1,328 open Software Development Engineer jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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