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Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick Suite

Amazon

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/20/2026

Compensation

$143,700 - $194,400 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
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Job description

The Software Development Engineer will join the AWS Quick RAG team, focusing on retrieval-augmented generation technology for Amazon Quick Suite's document processing and search capabilities. The role involves designing and building scalable ingestion pipelines for multi-modal content using computer vision and machine learning. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to enhance system performance and customer experience. This position offers the chance to work with modern AWS technologies while addressing complex distributed systems challenges.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and deploy distributed machine learning systems and large-scale solutions.
  • Collaborate closely with the team to influence overall strategy and define the team’s road map.
  • Drive the system architecture and spearhead best practices for quality products.
  • Mentor and develop junior engineers through code reviews and technical discussions.
  • Review system metrics and performance dashboards to ensure efficient processing of documents.
  • Code new features for multi-modal content processing and optimize retrieval algorithms.

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

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