Amazon

Software Development Engineer, Quick Governance Platform

Amazon$158K — $213K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • 2+ years in system design or architecture
  • 1+ years as a software development engineer or similar role
  • 1+ years of experience with large-scale software applications
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (C#, C++, Java, Perl)

Responsibilities

  • Build APIs for policy management and governance across enterprises
  • Design control-plane workflows for policy translation and management
  • Create telemetry and analytics pipelines for real-time AI usage insights
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on governance enforcement
  • Ensure the reliability and auditability of policy deployment
  • Develop user-friendly interfaces for administrators to manage policies
  • Implement solutions that assure compliance and efficient AI governance

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Mental Health Support services
Full Job Description
Key job responsibilities We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to build the policy infrastructure and enforcement systems that make enterprise AI safe at scale. You will design, implement, and operate distributed services that sit at the intersection of authorization, compliance, and AI governance - systems where correctness is non-negotiable and every decision must be explainable. Challenges you'll tackle: * Policy management at scale: Build the APIs and services that let administrators create, version, assign, and manage governance policies across complex organizational hierarchies with group-based assignment and inheritance * Configuration orchestration: Design the control-plane workflows that translate admin intent into policy artifacts consumed by downstream enforcement services, ensuring consistency, auditability, and safe rollout across environments * Admin observability and analytics: Build the telemetry and analytics pipelines that surface how AI is being used across an organization - usage dashboards, audit trails, compliance reporting, and anomaly detection that give administrators real-time visibility and actionable insights * Cross-team collaboration: Partner closely with authorization, identity, and guardrails teams to ensure seamless end-to-end governance - from the policy an admin authors in the console to its enforcement at the point of AI interaction About the team Amazon Quick is a generative AI-powered assistant that empowers employees to be more productive by answering questions, generating content, providing summaries, and completing tasks, all securely grounded in enterprise data. Quick serves some of the world's largest enterprises, with deployments spanning hundreds of thousands of users. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ 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 - 1+ 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 - 1+ 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 full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent 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, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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