Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Rufus

Description

We're enhancing the shopping experience on Amazon through the conversational capabilities of large language models, and we're looking for innovative professionals who are passionate about technology and customer experience. You'll have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the industry while working alongside talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPMs) to create solutions that serve our customers.

If you're excited about collaborating with a dynamic team and contributing to this evolving field, we'd love to have you join us on this journey!

Key job responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer with expertise in back-end system and online service to architect, design, and develop agentic services and applications powered by large language model.

In this role, you will build expertise in online service architecture, API development, and distributed systems that power responsive agentic AI applications at scale. You'll get opportunities to develop service orchestration patterns, efficient agent frameworks, and real-time processing systems, partnering with engineers and scientists in a fast-paced environment to deliver exceptional user experiences. You'll also contribute to our technical roadmap, service reliability metrics, and optimizations focused on building intelligent agents that can effectively reason, plan, and execute complex tasks on behalf of users.

In this role, you'll help establish best practices that improve LLM application efficiency, enable new agentic AI features for Stores customers with LLM capabilities. You'll work with your team to design, implement large scale distributed agentic AI applications at scale, partnering with technical and business leaders in a collaborative environment to create value for our customers. You'll also contribute to prioritization, estimation, and sprint planning activities.

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

• 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