Software Development Engineer, Amazon Business
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to potential to work on innovative solutions at scale, autonomy in a dynamic environment, and strong ownership emphasis.
- Impactful role building solutions for business customers
- Emphasis on innovative technologies in a collaborative setting
- Opportunity for mentorship and career growth
- Requires strong technical skills and agility
Pros
- Opportunity to work on large-scale systems impacting global business operations
- High autonomy and responsibility in project ownership
- Strong career development opportunities through mentorship
Cons
- Expectations for high performance in a fast-paced setting
- May require extensive communication across teams and stakeholders
- Limited transparency on compensation details
Who it's for
Mid-level to Senior • Remote within a collaborative team environment
Good fit
- Mid-level to senior software engineers
- Innovators eager to work on extensive technical challenges
- Professionals wanting to enhance customer-centric solutions
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without relevant software experience
- Individuals preferring stability over dynamic growth
- Those unwilling to take ownership of project outcomes
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Description
The Amazon Business team is building a development team to disrupt the way businesses worldwide purchase their supplies. Amazon Business launched in 2015 and reached it's first $1B in its first year, $35B in 2022. Go ahead and read about it on any of your favorite media outlets.
Our team is focused on building solutions to enable business customers to buy business, industrial and scientific products in large catalogs with confidence and at the right price; across multiple devices, countries and regions. Our customers include individual professionals, businesses and institutions that buy in either high frequency or in bulk quantities. Our customers have different needs than the traditional Amazon customer base… and we are here to solve this.
You and your team will be responsible for all aspects of the customer experience - from the visual interface to the back-end services. You will be working with new technologies that improve usability and increase performance and scalability. You will help redefine normal for the business ecommerce market.
You will help translate business requirements to technical deliverables and deliver operationally stable solutions that provide good customer experience. Candidates need to have strong ownership, passion to provide great customer experience and extreme focus on deliver results.
If you enjoy working in a dynamic environment with a lot of autonomy, this may be the career opportunity for you!
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will:
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, and presentations to share your technical know-how.
- Mentor more junior team members in their career growth.
