Software Development Engineer, Leo

About the Role

At Amazon, your career accelerates, twists, and challenges you in ways you never expected. You'll be part of something big: building products or services that reach millions and shaping how people live, work, and connect every day. This is where your ideas turn into real impact, working with world-class tools, global platforms, and systems built to operate at an extraordinary scale. You'll move fast, experiment, and launch solutions that matter, with endless opportunities to explore across teams and roles. This is an environment designed for builders who want to see the impact of their work in the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate and communicate effectively with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to design, build, and operate innovative products and services that delight our customers, while participating in technical discussions to drive solutions forward.
• Break down complex, ambiguous problems into well-defined, solvable components before implementation.
• Contribute to the design and development of scalable, reliable services, with distributed-systems scope varying by team.
• Conduct code reviews as a core engineering practice, providing constructive feedback and validating correctness.
• Contribute to clear and accurate technical documentation.
• Use GenAI and AI-powered tools to enhance development productivity, and critically validate, verify, and integrate AI-generated code, exercising sound judgment about when to trust AI output.
• Write clean, maintainable code following best practices and design patterns.
• Work in an agile environment practicing CI/CD principles while participating in operational responsibilities including on-call duties.
• Demonstrate operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Be 18 years of age or older.
• 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.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools in academic or professional settings.

Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related STEM fields.
• 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.

Location preferences will be considered based on business availability.

Applicants will be considered at all locations in the United States.

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.