Software Development Engineer, AWS Marketplace AI Agents

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog where customers discover evaluate procure and deploy third-party cloud software through the Marketplace website and AWS consoles. The AI Agents team is building the next generation of agentic commerce experiences enabling AI agents to autonomously discover negotiate purchase and consume software on behalf of customers. We own our product roadmap technical design engineering process launch plan and go-to-market

Our team is made up of inspired product managers strong technical leaders and motivated autonomous software engineers operating at the frontier of agentic AI and commerce. As a Software Dev Engineer on the team youll design and build the backend services and APIs that power agent-to-agent transactions payment protocols (such as x402) and programmatic software procurement meeting the high bar for reliability security and performance that machine-speed commerce demands.

You operate at all levels diving deep into implementation details while providing strategic input on product direction. You will design and implement features that deliver customer benefit at scale closely with product managers applied scientists and peer-level engineers to ship critical products in a fast-moving space. You will own quality and deployment for your code. You will mentor junior team members and raise the bar on software development best practices. Youre expected to think like an owner driving the right trade-offs on time to market quality and breadth of functionality.

The ideal candidate is a creative technologist with both breadth and depth across distributed systems API design and generative AI. This role requires excellent technical problem-solving and communication skills. You will innovate by defining novel solutions for problems that havent been solved at scale like how do AI agents safely transact authenticate and fulfill software purchases without human intervention Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with Gen AI agentic architectures or payment/commerce systems and show bias for action within a cohesive startup-style team.

You should be comfortable with ambiguity and energized by greenfield problem spaces. Youll gain a unique vantage point on how AI is reshaping software commerce across Amazon and help influence that direction. Along the way youll learn have fun and make a positive impact on millions of customers and the emerging ecosystem of autonomous AI agents.

Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to develop design and bring to market innovative devices and services
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to latest technologies at incredible scale and speed
- Build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage/use

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- 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 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

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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 - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually