Software Development Engineer, Agentic Commerce, Buy For Me
Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products exploring new external protocols and integrations and build/scale services from scratch.
Why this might be the right move for your career:
1. Ownership of a new Amazon product - Youll own services end to end - design build on-call and the roadmap for where they go next. SDE 2s here drive projects not tasks.
2. Hard problems that make you a better engineer. Distributed purchase orchestration at Amazon scale: idempotency blast-radius control retry safety and correctness where every bug is somebodys real money.
3. Cross-team leverage. Our launches move Payments Search and partner teams.
4. A charter thats growing. Were scaling toward hundreds of millions of ASINs and 100MM customers in2026.
What youll actually build
- Seamless purchase orchestration: the services that turn Place Order into a completed correct transaction across external merchants.
- Safe rollout tooling: monitoring impact analysis and guardrails so we ship fast without waking anyone at 3am.
- Integrations with payment rails and merchant onboarding pipelines that expand whats buyable.
- Whatever the next phase needs: this space is being invented and your ideas shape it.
Key job responsibilities
Were looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer with expertise in back-end system and online service to architect design and develop shopping experiences.
In this role you will build expertise in online service architecture API development and distributed systems that power Buy For Me.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Deliver customer value in an iterative fashion while working towards longer term systems goals.
- Build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
About the team
The OAS (Off-Amazon Selection) Ordering team owns purchase orchestration for agentic and deterministic paths offer qualification for e-commerce deterministic protocols (ACP UCP) and order fulfillment workflows. We are also building the Cart system for the OAS (Off Amazon Selection) program.
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3 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
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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
About Company
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