Software Development Engineer - Test

We're looking for a Senior SDE-T to define and own quality engineering for Amazon Lists as we build AI-powered customer experiences. You'll bring a quality-first mindset and raise the bar for how we ship at Amazon scale.

Our team is reimagining how hundreds of millions of customers curate, discover, and connect through lists. We're applying generative AI to transform Lists and collaborative shopping into intelligent, personalized experiences. As we build these 0→1 features on top of Tier-1 systems serving billions of daily requests, we need quality engineering that keeps pace with our ambition.

You'll architect test frameworks that validate AI-powered list features (where outputs are non-deterministic and customer experiences are conversational), design scalability and performance testing across our service fleet, and embed quality gates into our CI/CD pipelines. You'll influence how our development engineers build for testability and represent quality engineering in our roadmap planning.

You'll own our quality strategy end-to-end: from designing test architectures and building scalable automation frameworks, to partnering with product and development engineers to ship list experiences that work reliably at scale. You'll be a technical leader, mentoring engineers, influencing team practices, and ensuring we ship with high confidence as we iterate rapidly.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ 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, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 3+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually