Solutions Developer, Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE)
Arlington, TX - USA
Job Summary
Do you have a builders mentality where show me means more than tell me Are you passionate about technology and AI understand cloud architectures and platforms and quick to adopt emerging technologies Are you adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches and validate technical feasibility
As trusted customer advocates the Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers create early iterations of products and solutions often exploring new technical grounds. Were seeking experienced technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth business acumen and strong interpersonal skills.
Role Overview
As a Solutions Developer you will partner with customers and AWS account and service teams to craft highly scalable flexible and resilient solutions that address customer business problems and accelerate AWS adoption. Youll shape and build prototypes across domains including Machine Learning Agentic Design Serverless Architecture and multi-modal Generative AIwith most projects exploring the art of the possible using the latest methods frameworks services and models.
Youll work across industry verticals including automotive energy healthcare telecommunications manufacturing and media and entertainment. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is criticalyou will help drive revenue growth and strategic outcomes for customers influencing adoption decisions and accelerating customer success with AWS.
Key Expectations
Profile: Youre a consistently strong contributor on small teams build customer prototypes. You must be hands-on with technical software engineering skills support direct customer communication and capable of learning new technologies and industry use cases quickly. Youll represent AWS in customer meetings alongside others serving as both the AWS voice and customer advocate.
Youll build prototypes together in smaller project teams and operate with some independence to learn and test new technical solutions with the team. Youll dive deep in ambiguous environments where business objectives are emergent and to find novel solutions to challenges. You will decompose significantly complex challenges into elegant solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes with your work influencing entire organizations and establishing patterns that may be reused across the team with reference architectures and reusable components and solutions.
Key job responsibilities
Technical: As a technical contributor you combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability comfortable at both the whiteboard and keyboard. Youll push the technical bar by taking initiative to learn new topics and experiment across domains such as AI serverless Agentic Design and Physical AI in enterprise contexts.
Ownership and Execution: Youll own key development tasks from design through implementation with some supervision delivering to a high standard. Youll establish trust by defining clear paths forward and reviewing them with senior team members for feedback. Youll contribute on larger projects with others and in some cases independently on smaller ones.
Scale and Impact: Youll work to identify ways to invent and simplify by contributing to scaling and code re-use projects within the team. Youll pursue thought leadership by offering blogs and workshop content at our customer events. Youll take an active part in learning and applying AI-assisted coding methods and tools to our work and share your learnings with customers. You continuously seek better ways to apply emerging technology to customer projects.
A day in the life
During customer prototype engagements youll work backwards to learn about customer outcomes and design innovative solutions that you design build and test along with program managers and specialists to deliver resultsserving as project lead on some engagements and contributing part-time on others. Project teams vary based on availability specialized skills required and career growth interests. Team members span the US and EMEA with periodic larger meetings to share knowledge and align on goals.
Youll also dedicate time to pursue thought leadership initiatives that align with both team objectives and your professional interests.
About the team
Our team comprises experienced full-stack developers passionate about delivering technical solutions using AWS services in a rapid development environment. We move quickly and support each other through knowledge sharing building our own tools as readily as we leverage existing ones to achieve the art of the possibletransforming concepts into working prototypes in days and weeks that accelerate our customers toward production.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
- 2 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
- Experience working with agile development methodologies
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language or experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Knowledge of a modern programming language (Ruby Java Python or C#)
- Proficient in the use of AI coding tools to improve quality and velocity.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Herndon - 131300.00 - 177600.00 USD annually
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