Amazon Web Services will add approximately 800 engineering and operations positions at its Bellevue, Washington campus over the next 12 months, the company announced Thursday, in a significant expansion tied to surging demand for cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence services. The new roles span software development, data center operations, machine learning research, and enterprise sales.
The hiring push comes as AWS reported a 24 percent year-over-year increase in revenue in its most recent quarterly earnings, driven largely by enterprise customers migrating workloads to the cloud and adopting generative AI tools. "The Puget Sound region continues to be the engine of innovation for AWS," said Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services. "These roles reflect our long-term investment in the people and infrastructure needed to serve our customers." The new positions will be housed primarily in Amazon's Bellevue 600 tower complex, which the company has been expanding since 2022.
Bellevue Mayor Lynne Robinson praised the announcement, calling it "a vote of confidence in our city's ability to attract and retain world-class tech talent." The expansion is expected to generate significant secondary economic activity for the Eastside, including demand for housing, retail, and professional services. Amazon currently employs more than 15,000 people in Bellevue, making it the city's largest private employer. The announcement stands in contrast to the broader tech industry, which has seen a wave of layoffs over the past two years, though hiring in cloud and AI divisions has remained robust across major firms.