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Software Development Engineer - App Performance, Mobile App Foundations

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Compensation
$144–194K/yr
Location
Seattle, WA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Software Development Engineer will build and support systems that improve performance across Amazon Shopping apps on iOS and Android. The team measures and optimizes startup, latency, and runtime performance, develops tooling to catch regressions, and explores AI-assisted anomaly detection and root-cause diagnosis. The role also partners with teams across Amazon to improve performance-critical code paths and remove bottlenecks.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software DevelopmentSystem DesignSystem ArchitectureDesign PatternsReliabilityScalabilityLarge-Scale SoftwareMulti-Tiered SystemsMultithreaded SoftwareEmbedded SoftwareDistributed SystemsC#C++JavaPerlObject-Oriented DesignProgrammingSoftware Development LifecycleCoding StandardsCode ReviewSource ControlBuild ProcessesSoftware TestingSoftware Operations

Qualifications

3+ Years Software Development2+ Years System Design or Architecture1+ Year SDE or Related Experience1+ Year Large-Scale Software Experience1+ Year Object-Oriented Design ExperienceBachelor's in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or Related FieldBachelor's in Computer Science or Equivalent3+ Years Software Development Lifecycle Experience

Benefits

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

Full job description

Description

How would you like to impact hundreds of millions of customers around the world and empower hundreds of engineers daily? Mobile Shopping is one of the fastest growing strategic businesses within Amazon. Our team owns how the Amazon shopping apps perform on Android and iOS. We make sure they start fast, respond instantly, and stay smooth as hundreds of teams add new features.

Do you want to solve complex problems at the scale of the Amazon Mobile Shopping app? Do you want to build the tools that measure, optimize, and safeguard app startup, latency, and runtime performance? Do you want to explore how AI can detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before customers notice? Do you want to work with talented, tenured engineers who help each other grow? Then we would like to hear from you!

Key job responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support robust and stable solutions across Amazon's mobile shopping apps

  • Profile and optimize app startup, latency, and runtime performance across critical customer code paths

  • Build the systems and tooling that automatically catch performance regressions before they reach millions of mobile Shoppers

  • Develop systems that support AI-assisted mobile development at scale, exploring approaches like automated anomaly detection and root-cause diagnosis

  • Partner with dozens of teams across Amazon to improve performance-critical code paths and remove bottlenecks

  • Help raise the bar for mobile development as we change the way we develop mobile apps

About the team

Our team owns app performance for the Amazon Shopping apps on iOS and Android. Every startup, tap, and scroll that millions of customers experience runs through the systems we build. We measure how the apps perform, optimize the paths that matter most, and build the tooling that keeps performance from regressing as hundreds of teams ship new features.

We are a group of engineers who like hard problems, help each other grow, and take pride in work that hundreds of teams and millions of customers depend on daily.

Basic Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

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

  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

  • 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

  • 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 .

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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
  • Washington median$144–194K/yr441 salary ranges
  • US median$144–194K/yr1,213 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $169K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($169K) — in the middle half of Software Development Engineer salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 447 open Software Development Engineer jobs in Washington and 1,328 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Software Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (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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