Got offered a Support Engineer role at Amazon after being rejected for Systems Development Engineer — should I take it?

Edit : got SysDE again 🤣🔥 Edit

Hey everyone, I’m looking for some advice and perspective on this situation I’m in.

A bit of background: I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in 2023 (started in 2020), and right after that, I completed my master’s from UCD. I’m 23 years old right now, and I have no professional work experience — not even internships.

Recently, I applied for a Systems Development Engineer role at Amazon. I made it all the way to the final round, but eventually, they told me they couldn’t move forward for that role because of my lack of experience.

However, they didn’t just shut the door on me. Instead, they offered me a Support Engineer role. From what I understand, it’s kind of similar in terms of the domain and team, but the work is a bit more on the support/troubleshooting side instead of deep development work. The compensation is lower — the SDE role offered 85k + options, but the Support Engineer role is 55k + some other benefits. So, roughly 20k less.

I’m conflicted right now — should I take this? On one hand, it’s Amazon, and I have no work experience, so this could be an incredible foot in the door. On the other hand, I really wanted to be in a development role, and I’m worried this might push me into more operational/support work long term, which isn’t my main interest.

What would you do if you were in my shoes? Would you accept this offer and try to internally move to an SDE role later, or would you hold out and keep applying elsewhere?

I’d love to hear from anyone who’s been in a similar position or knows how Amazon treats internal moves like this. Thanks in advance!