Amazon Layoffs Hit Software Developers, Engineers, Directors And Managers In Washington

Amazon is laying off nearly 2,200 employees in Washington—from software developers and product managers to directors and data engineers. Here’s who Amazon is cutting as part of its 16,000 corporate workforce reduction.

Amazon is laying off approximately 2,200 employees across Washington as part of Amazon’s 16,000 corporate workforce layoff round, which includes mostly technical roles such as software developers, engineers and various product managers.

CRN obtained this information via a new Amazon WARN filing to the state Employment Security Department, which lists all the job titles of the 2,200 employees who were laid off throughout Washington this week.

The largest job cuts at the $180 billion Seattle-based company’s home state came in the roles of software development engineers.

Some of the largest employee reductions were software dev engineer I, software dev engineer II and software dev engineer III roles. Hundreds of these roles were eliminated in Washington, according to the WARN filing.

After software developers, some of the largest layoffs came via product and project managers, as well as engineers.

Hundreds of Amazon roles that were cut included business intelligence engineers, data engineers, quality assurance engineers, ADC engineers, security engineers, front-end engineers and technical business developers.

Managing roles that were terminated included customer success managers, risk managers, technical program managers, project and product managers, software development managers and partner sales managers.

Amazon Layoffs Hit Applied Scientists, Sales Operations And Research Scientists

Other large areas where Amazon laid off employees included applied scientists, UX designers, sales operations, solutions architects and research scientists.

In addition, many roles with titles such as economists, central account executives and business analysts were eliminated.

Dozens of Amazon employees with roles around administrative support, executive assistants and HR assistants were also let go.

Top Roles Cut Include Directors

There were also several top executive roles laid off, including a director of finance, director of software development, director of research science, director of UX/design and director of creative MKTG.

Senior managers for software development, data engineering, program management and applied science were also laid off.

Of the almost 2,200 employees laid off at Amazon this week, more than 1,400 were based in Seattle and about 630 were based in Bellevue, Wash.

Amazon’s 16,000 Layoff Round; 14,000 Layoffs In October

Last week, Amazon confirmed it will be laying off 16,000 corporate employees.

“As I shared in October, we’ve been working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy,” said Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, in a message to employees last week.

“While many teams finalized their organizational changes in October, other teams did not complete that work until now,” she added.

In October, Amazon laid off 14,000 corporate employees, citing organizational changes and AI transformation as part of the reasoning behind the layoffs. Those 14,000 layoffs included senior program managers and principal designers to applied scientists and software engineers.

This makes Amazon’s layoff head count total roughly 30,000 over the past four months.

Amazon Says Monthly Layoffs ‘Not Our Plan'

Galetti said Amazon will continue to hire and invest in strategic areas, so employees shouldn’t expect constant mass firings every few months.

“Some of you might ask if this is the beginning of a new rhythm—where we announce broad reductions every few months. That’s not our plan,” Galetti said.

Its corporate staff numbers roughly 350,000, making the latest layoffs about 4.5 percent of that workforce.

“The reductions we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we’re again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted,” said Galetti.

Amazon will offer most U.S.-based employees 90 days to look for a new role internally.

The company is set to report its fourth-quarter 2025 earnings results Thursday.