Software Dev Engineer II, Programming Foundations
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, TypeScript, Java, Rust. Compensation is listed at $143,700–$194,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- May 13, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersJoin the Programming Foundations Team within Amazon Builder Experience as a Software Development Engineer. Our team owns the languages, libraries, and tools that Amazon builders use daily to write their software. We work on Java, Python, Rust, TypeScript, and C++ language support, along with libraries like Coral (Amazon's service framework) and LPT (LivePipelineTemplates, an infrastructure-as-code tool). We also build and maintain developer tools including VSCode and IntelliJ plugins, CRUX (Code Review User Experience, Amazon's code review system), and DevSpaces (cloud-based development environments). In this role, you will build tools that help thousands of engineers across Amazon write, test, and review their code. Key job responsibilities As AI agents take on more software development work, they need the same organizational context that human engineers rely on—project decisions captured in Slack threads, meeting notes in Outlook, design discussions on Zoom, and team structures across corporate directories. You will build the connective tissue between these productivity tools and AI-powered development environments like AgentSpaces and ClawSpaces, giving coding agents direct access to the rich context that's currently trapped in siloed systems. The result: engineers can delegate more complex tasks to agents and spend less time manually assembling the context those agents need to do…