Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
Technology
SoftwareDevEngineerII,ProgrammingFoundations
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“Software Dev Engineer II, Programming Foundations at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Programming languages, Developer tools, Infrastructure as code. Build connective tissue. Give coding agents access”
What You'll Achieve.
Delegate complex tasks to agents; Spend less time assembling context
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years professional software development, 2+ years design or architecture, 1+ years software development engineer, 1+ years C#, C++, Java, or Perl, 1+ years Object Oriented Design, Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent, Experience programming at least one language
Nice to Have
3+ years full software development life cycle, Bachelor's degree in computer science
What You'll Do.
Build connective tissue
Give coding agents access
Build tools for engineers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Programming Foundations Team; Amazon Builder Experience
Full Job Description
Join 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 their jobs well. A day in the life Your work will directly affect how builders at Amazon do their jobs. As you help builders move faster, you're helping Amazon deliver and innovate. This is practical work that requires understanding what builders actually need and building tools that solve their problems without getting in the way. About the team The Programming Foundations Team is part of Amazon Builder Experience. We work on the basic tools and infrastructure that builders use to write software. Our team includes engineers who care about developer experience and want to make building
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