Software Development Engineer
Amazon
About the Role
Software Development Engineer – Embedded Systems 2026 (US) at Amazon.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to design, build, and operate innovative products and services.
- Participate in technical discussions to drive solutions forward.
- Design and develop scalable solutions using cloud-native architectures and microservices in a large distributed computing environment.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation.
- Build and maintain resilient distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective.
- Leverage and contribute to the development of GenAI and AI-powered tools to enhance development productivity.
- Stay current with emerging technologies.
- Write clean, maintainable code following best practices and design patterns.
- Work in an agile environment practicing CI/CD principles.
- Participate in operational responsibilities including on-call duties.
- Demonstrate operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Experience with at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java, Python, C++, C#, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
- Experience with data structure implementation, basic algorithm development, and/or object-oriented design principles.
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related STEM fields.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience from previous technical internship(s) or demonstrated project experience.
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- AI tools for development productivity.
- Cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
- Database systems (SQL and NoSQL).
- Contributing to open-source projects.
- Version control systems.
- Debugging and troubleshooting complex systems.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly.
- Basic understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.