Location
Seattle, WA
Type
Full-time
Posted
8/4/2026
Compensation
$143,700 - $194,400 per year
Job description
Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE) who is passionate about solving business challenges through innovative technology. The role involves collaborating with experienced teams to design and build scalable services that impact millions of customers. SDEs will work in an agile environment, tackling complex problems and creating new products and features. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and influence the industry.
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 using C#, C++, Java, or Perl
- 2+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, and testing
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to conceive and design innovative products and services.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable and fault-tolerant.
- Design and code solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
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.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
3,290
FY2026
Approval rate
99.1%
FY2026
LCA certified
32,937
FY2026
Entry-level share
10.6%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+9%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-44%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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