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Amazon is an online retailer and cloud provider that also runs streaming, devices, advertising, healthcare and AI services, and it employed about 1,576,000 full-time and part-time people at December 31, 2025. Net sales came to about $716.9 billion in 2025. Its 10-K for that year names seven customer sets, from consumers and sellers to content creators, advertisers and its own employees.
Amazon reports three segments. North America brought in about $426.3 billion of net sales in 2025, International about $161.9 billion and Amazon Web Services (AWS) about $128.7 billion. The principal executive office is at 410 Terry Avenue North in Seattle. Physical stores numbered 615 in North America and 8 internationally at December 31, 2025. Office space at that date came to about 40.2 million square feet in North America, leased and owned combined. The international figure was about 28.3 million square feet.
The careers site splits corporate work between two headquarters, HQ1 and HQ2. HQ1 is the Puget Sound region of Washington. HQ2 is in Arlington, Virginia. The 10-K for 2025 says Amazon owns and leases space in both places.
On October 13, 2026, the careers site's locations page featured 34 US hubs. They range from Seattle, Sunnyvale and the New York City area to Boardman and Umatilla in Oregon and Canton, Mississippi. The same page listed seven hubs elsewhere in the Americas: Montréal, Toronto, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Bogotá, São Paulo and one in Costa Rica.
Postings live that day reached further. Software Development Engineer openings were listed in Bengaluru and Hyderabad in India and in Cape Town, South Africa. Principal-level roles were posted in Berlin, Haifa, Mumbai and Riyadh.
Engineering titles on the careers site on October 13, 2026 follow a worded ladder. It starts at Software Development Engineer, then moves to Software Development Engineer II and III, then Senior Software Development Engineer. Above that sits Principal Software Engineer. One Seattle posting that day covered "Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineer" in a single opening. Many titles add the team after a comma, as in Software Development Engineer III, Annapurna Labs.
The principal rung also appears outside engineering. Examples that day included Principal TPM, Principal Account Manager and Principal, Public Policy. Openings are filed under 34 job categories. Warehouse associate work and fulfillment management are separate categories, and so are technical and non-technical program management.
H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs) filed in 2025 by three Amazon employers add up to about 20,700. Amazon.com Services LLC filed about 14,900, up from about 13,500 in 2023 and about 14,500 in 2024. Filings by Amazon Web Services Inc fell to about 3,300 in 2025 from about 4,100 in 2024. Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. grew each year, from about 1,800 in 2023 to about 2,400 in 2025.
Corporate cuts came in two rounds. On October 28, 2025, the company announced a reduction of about 14,000 corporate roles. A second message on January 28, 2026 covered about 16,000 roles. Most affected US staff got 90 days to look for another internal role.