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Senior Software Development Engineer, Frontier AI Tools

Amazon

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

$168,100 - $227,400 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.1% approval+9% YoY
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Job description

The Sr. Software Development Engineer will play a crucial role in building products and experiences for the Proserve and Frontier AI teams at AWS. This position focuses on creating solutions that help these teams understand customer needs and deliver tailored solutions at scale. The ideal candidate will drive AI-driven transformation across various processes involved in customer deployment. This hands-on role requires balancing speed of delivery with performance and scalability.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
  • 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
  • Experience as a mentor or tech lead in an engineering team
  • 3+ years of experience designing and building orchestration or workflow systems
  • 5+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience building AI/ML-powered product features
  • Experience implementing security-by-design requirements
  • Experience integrating with enterprise SaaS platforms

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical design, implementation, and operational health of platform capabilities or delivery workflows.
  • Build production-grade software that helps teams understand customer context and develop solutions.
  • Partner with delivery teams to create reusable software components and automation.
  • Lead design reviews and make tradeoffs across various system attributes.
  • Build secure integrations with approved AWS services and customer systems.
  • Establish testing, monitoring, and incident-response mechanisms for owned systems.
  • Partner with Security Engineering to implement security-by-design requirements.
  • Mentor engineers and provide high-quality code reviews.
  • Communicate technical decisions and delivery progress to stakeholders.

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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