Software Engineer, Data Center Builder Tools - AI-Driven

Amazon; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build and maintain the device manager service for AWS Data Center Builder Tools, responsible for thousands of devices across global data centers. You will work with hardware engineers, data center operations, and security experts to ensure safety, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, rapid prototyping, and ML-driven insights to accelerate delivery while upholding high security and operational

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.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of Python experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable software that runs both on data center devices and in the cloud services that manage them.
• Integrate AI-powered development tools into daily workflows — using generative-AI coding assistants for rapid prototyping, AI-driven test generation for broader coverage, and ML-based anomaly detection to proactively identify production issues.
• Drive technical design decisions, author design documents, and lead code reviews with a focus on security, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that leverage automated quality gates, intelligent deployment strategies, and AI-assisted release validation.
• Collaborate with product managers, hardware engineers, data center operations, and security specialists to translate requirements into production-ready solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers on software engineering best practices, including effective use of AI tools while maintaining code ownership and understanding.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies — particularly in AI/ML tooling, automation frameworks, and cloud-native architectures — and advocate for their adoption where they raise the team's quality and velocity.

Skills

Python

Code reviews

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/Engineering/Math)

Tools

Rust

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build and maintain the device manager service for AWS Data Center Builder Tools, responsible for thousands of devices across global data centers. You will work with hardware engineers, data center operations, and security experts to ensure safety, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, rapid prototyping, and ML-driven insights to accelerate delivery while upholding high security and operational