Software Development Engineer Internship Jobs in Federal Way, WA

Amazon Web Services has been the global leader in cloud computing since 2006, providing a robust platform that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries.
Developers all over the world rely on our storage, compute, and virtualized services. The Sales,Marketing and Global Services Operations - IDEAS team's success depends on delivering trusted, extensible, and high-quality intelligence that empowers our go-to-market (GTM) teams and enhances customer engagement at scale. The IDEAS team builds and operates the foundational customer intelligence that powers AWS Sales field.
We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to design and deliver solutions that combine distributed big data technologies and agentic AI development. We're building solutions to achieve amazing feats with data, to enable us to arm our field teams with the actionable intelligence needed to engage and serve every possible AWS customer in the world, to the fullest.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion solutions to solve complex and ambiguous data challenges for large-scale datasets
- Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in microservices, container, and distributed cluster-compute architectures with comprehensive data validation frameworks
- Develop serverless applications using AWS Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, and Glue services while implementing infrastructure as code through AWS CDK for automated deployment and monitoring
- Apply Machine Learning to solve challenging data problems at scale
- Work with AWS technologies such as Glue, EMR, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, ElasticSearch, Lambda, SQS, SNS, API Gateway and more
- Apply software development best practices in terms of quality and security
- Utilize object-oriented software design to build scalable, maintainable systems
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team
- Design data systems optimized for machine learning workflows, including feature stores, model training pipelines, and real-time inference capabilities
- Partner with applied scientists and ML engineers to build robust data foundations for RAG systems, recommendation engines, and predictive models
- Play an instrumental role in defining system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall user experience for a data-focused product
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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 Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
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
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
- Knowledge of AWS platforms such as S3, Glue, Athena, Sagemaker
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USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually