Senior Software Engineer, AWS Commercial Application Services

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Agentic AI and large language models are shaping how enterprise software gets built deployed and operated at scale. Were hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead that charge architecting AI-driven solutions that reshape how partners like SAP run mission-critical workloads on AWS. This role demands a self-starter mindset rapid experimentation and expertise in partner ecosystems ideal for engineers who love learning challenging norms and building prototypes that ship.

The AI & Strategic Partner Engineering team builds deep integrations between AWS and strategic partners creating seamless interoperability that accelerates time-to-market for joint customers. Were expanding across Agentic AI LLM-powered workflows distributed systems security and emerging AWS services pioneering collaborative AI agent patterns that turn weeks of integration work into days. A wave of innovation is revolutionizing partner ecosystems through AI-driven automation secure architectures and elastic scalability reshaping how global enterprises deploy and operate cloud solutions.


Key job responsibilities
Youll define the technical direction for your team own architectural decisions and drive cross-team alignment in a fast-paced high-velocity environment building partner-driven solutions alongside skillful builders senior engineers and architects. Youll design and deliver mission-critical integrations between partners (like SAP) and AWS-native services spanning Agentic AI LLM workflows distributed systems security databases and emerging AWS services enabling seamless data flow identity management and compliance for global enterprises.

Youll architect AI-augmented SDLC patterns collaborate with AI agents to rapidly prototype and validate solutions and own full-stack delivery from design through production emphasizing high availability performance and customer delight. Youll build detailed technical specifications master diverse domains and turn ambiguity into shipped products. Youll mentor junior engineers partner with cross-functional teams (Product Security AI Research) influence roadmaps through data and credibility and represent your team externally to partner service teams and leadership. All team members actively participate in product definition architecture reviews iterative development code review and operations. Clear professional communication with teammates customers and partners is essential.


A day in the life
Youll identify partner pain points and make architectural decisions that blend scalability security and AI innovation. Youll rapidly prototype solutions using AI agents validate them through load testing and drive cross-team alignment with partner service teams. Youll mentor engineers through design reviews troubleshoot complex distributed failures and document decisions to empower future teams. Occasional travel may be required based on engineering work requirements with partners.

About the team
The AI & Strategic Partner Engineering team empowers AWS partners to innovate at cloud scale. Were pioneers in integrating AI-driven capabilities into partner offerings building secure scalable foundations for tomorrows enterprise workloads.
Join us to redefine whats possible for partners on AWS. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members thrive on one-on-one collaboration thorough but kind code reviews and the autonomy to drive high-impact technical decisions. We invest in your growth through challenging projects that expand your architectural breadth and leadership influence.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship & Career Growth

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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.

- 7 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
- Autonomous Agent & Generative AI Engineering: Experienced in creating maintaining and successfully deploying multiple autonomous AI agents into production systems for enterprise customers and external partners. Possesses a deep understanding of different AI-native technologies with demonstrated success implementing robust guardrails

- 7 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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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 WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually