SDE II: AI Foundation Orchestration at Scale

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the distributed systems at the core of our Model Factory platform. You will own end-to-end components, collaborate with ML scientists, and contribute to the SDK, orchestration, and CDK infra.

The role emphasizes building reliable, scalable services for training, evaluation, and deployment at scale, with strong emphasis on engineering rigor and on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience on large systems
• 1+ years of SWE or related occupational experience
• 1+ years designing and developing multi-tiered distributed software applications
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate services that orchestrate foundation-model data preparation, training, evaluation, and deployment as reliable, contract-validated workflows
• Own delivery of individual components end-to-end - from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and on-call operations
• Build and extend compute-backend integrations and job launchers across SageMaker, EMR, AWS Batch, and Kubernetes/EKS
• Improve platform resiliency and operability for long-running distributed jobs - checkpoint/resume, fault detection and recovery, retries, observability
• Contribute to the SDK, workflow orchestration, and schema/contract layer that teams use to declare and run jobs
• Integrate containerized training/evaluation frameworks into the platform's task and recipe model
• Collaborate with ML scientists and internal customers to translate requirements into platform capabilities and mentor interns/new engineers

Skills

3+ years software development

2+ years design/architecture

1+ years SWE experience

1+ years distributed software

1+ years OO Design

Programming in at least one language

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Amazon in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the distributed systems at the core of our Model Factory platform. You will own end-to-end components, collaborate with ML scientists, and contribute to the SDK, orchestration, and CDK infra.

The role emphasizes building reliable, scalable services for training, evaluation, and deployment at scale, with strong emphasis on engineering rigor and on-call readiness.