Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026
Amazon is an American technology and retail conglomerate founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It operates the world's largest online marketplace together with a global logistics network, physical grocery stores and a third-party seller platform that accounts for most units sold. Amazon Web Services, launched in 2006, is the leading public cloud provider and generates the majority of the group's operating profit, while advertising, Prime Video, Alexa devices and Kuiper satellite broadband round out the business.
It is hiring: 15,992 open roles, 4,970 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 16% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Seattle, United States
- Founded
- 1994
- Employees
- 5000+estimated range
- Revenue
- $638B2024 · Amazon annual report 2024
- Legal entities
- 6 in 5 countries
- Parent company
- AMAZON.COM, INC.US
- Open roles
- 15,992 in 1142 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- amazon.com
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 15,992 open roles at Amazon. Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, United States. It was founded in 1994. The median pay stated in its open roles is $181k, across 9,483 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
80/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securityamazon.com · Nov 13, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail goes to spam
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders fail (-all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
Valid certificate · DigiCert Inc
Good
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Not enforced
Weak
Security contact (security.txt)
Published without a contact or an expiry
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Management is the largest family, 12 of open roles.
4,970Posted in 30 days31% of open roles are fresh
<1%Remote roles100 of 15,992
1784Roles in AI11% of open roles
1,142Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
13,883 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States13,883On site
India2,352On site
United Kingdom1,036On site
Germany714On site
Japan624On site
Australia500On site
Remote, from elsewhere100Possible
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 100.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Amazon33 days
Market, same roles35 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand87
Pay54
Your chance48
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+49503%
Jul 20This week
Open roles a week: 31 then, 15,377 now
Are the postings real?
B
80 / 100Amazon scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4577 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 82% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 33 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale82%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Management12
Backend10
Field & Service9
Industrial Engineering9
Operations9
Product6
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
English202313%
German4113%
Japanese4083%
French2021%
Spanish1821%
Portuguese1081%
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 84%Master's Degree 9%Associate's Degree 3%High School Diploma 3%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 1%
Experience asked: 4.7 years on average, in 11,627 postings. 11,733 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Health insurance899356%
Restricted stock units895356%
Parental leave872255%
Flexible schedule215213%
Continuous learning5053%
Equity2672%
Retirement plans2562%
Growth opportunities1911%
Professional development1231%
Contract type
Full-Time 15,247Internship 617Contract 55Part-Time 25
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation offered
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 16% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$181kMedianmarket estimate $157k
$130k – $208kTypical rangeUSD a year
$500kHighest paying roleSr. Delivery Consultant, Customer Experience, Professional Services
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $157k
Intern127$52k$24k – $80k
Junior1218$91k$72k – $118k
Middle2750$175k$136k – $194k
Senior3567$190k$163k – $215k
Staff+328$208k$204k – $230k
Lead912$239k$200k – $253k
Head+85$196k$166k – $264k
$0$75k$150k$225k$300k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Named in the work visa registers of United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, Japan.
23,961 ▼ 1%H-1B filings in 12 months
81Green card filings
$161kMedian offered salary
In the register as Amazon.com Services LLC, Seattle, WA (+5 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 30, 2026
142 ▼ 55%Employment permits in 12 months
189Open roles in Ireland
In the register as Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited
Other sponsors in the same field
DETE · latest filing Oct 31, 2026
A-ratedSponsor licence
Senior or Specialist Worker +2Visa route
679Open roles in United Kingdom
In the register as Amazon UK Services Ltd, London
Other sponsors in the same field
UK Home Office · checked Nov 14, 2026
4Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
461Open roles in Japan
In the register as Amazon
The employer's own adverts on Alion · checked Nov 14, 2026
Footprint
Hiring in 1142 cities in 56 countries.
1142Cities
56Countries
SeattleBusiest site
SeattleFastest growing+1145 in a month
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Ranked #1 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Financials
Funding rounds, investors and revenue on record.
$638BRevenue2024
$54MTotal raised
$1.6MPublic grants2 public grants
GrantLatest round
Money by yearUSD, rounds and grants
2019$1.5M1 record
2017$149k1 record
1997$54M1 record
Largest rounds and grants
Investors
Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins led Amazon's 1996 venture round, taking a stake ahead of the 1997 listing. The Menlo Park firm was one of the defining investors of the early commercial internet.
8M
Sources: funding announcements, grant and company registers
4 public contracts won, $-5158 in all.
4Contracts
$-5158Value
1Buyer countries
Biggest buyers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
United States · 1 public contract
$715k
Department of the Air Force
United States · 3 public contracts
$399k
Latest awards
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, United States · 2020-09
$715k
Department of the Air Force, United States · 2020-07
$14k
Department of the Air Force, United States · 2020-07
$3.8k
Sources: USAspending (US federal) - award notices naming the company's legal entities as the winner
Technologies named in job postings at Amazon over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
791Technologies in use
15,757Postings analysed
74/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Oct 2026
Formerly Workshop Studio (hpcworkshops.com)
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 0.01%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
145k ★GitHub stars1039 public repositories · +1% 4.5 ★App Store5.9M ratings
19306Hacker News storiesbest: 2246 points
4.6kHugging Face followers47 models · 18 datasets
Oct 92026
Blog
The highly anticipated new series is helmed by the creator of 'Vikings' and has already been renewed for a second season.
Oct 92026
Blog
The third film will continue the young adult saga based on Stefania S.'s international best-selling novels.
Oct 82026
Blog
Amazon has built more than 1,000 satellites for its growing constellation-and it's just getting started.
Oct 82026
Blog
Amazon launched the Physical AI Toolchain on AWS, an open-source stack that helps manufacturers build machines that perceive, reason, and act in the real world.
Oct 82026
Blog
New Amazon Kids Tablets available in two models for younger and older kids
Oct 82026
Blog
An all-new lineup of tablets with world-class hardware, personalized intelligence from Alexa+, and full Google Play Store access.
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once