The Software Development Engineer II role focuses on building policy infrastructure and enforcement systems to ensure safe enterprise AI deployment at scale. The team is part of Amazon Quick, a generative AI-powered assistant that enhances employee productivity. The position involves designing and implementing distributed services that manage authorization, compliance, and AI governance. The ideal candidate will tackle challenges related to policy management, configuration orchestration, and admin observability.

• 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
• 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

• Build the APIs and services for policy management at scale across complex organizational hierarchies.
• Design control-plane workflows that translate admin intent into policy artifacts for enforcement services.
• Build telemetry and analytics pipelines for monitoring AI usage across the organization.
• Collaborate with authorization, identity, and guardrails teams to ensure seamless governance.

• 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.