Software Development Engineer, AWS Marketplace Engineering

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.

As a Software Development Engineer on the AWS Marketplace Engineering team you will design build and maintain core components of the AWS Marketplace platform. You will create high-performance secure and scalable systems that transform how buyers and sellers engage with cloud solutions across AWS.

You will own critical aspects of the AWS Marketplace platform including:

- Buyer & Seller Experiences
- Building intuitive: Interfaces for product discovery pricing subscriptions and deployment workflows.
- Integration Frameworks: Developing APIs and services that connect AWS Marketplace with AWS products partner ecosystems and third-party platforms.
- Marketplace Automation: Creating tools for product listing approvals compliance checks and automated billing/payout systems.
- Performance & Reliability: Ensuring the platform handles millions of transactions daily with low latency and high availability.
- Security & Compliance: Implementing safeguards for data integrity payment processing and regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR SOC 2).

What Makes This Role Unique
- AWS Marketplace Engineering sits at the intersection of massive scale and user-centric innovation. Youll work on systems that:
- Power Global Transactions: Enable billions of dollars in annual commerce across 180 countries.
- Drive Partner Success: Equip software vendors with tools to reach millions of AWS customers.
- Accelerate Cloud Adoption: Simplify how businesses discover and deploy cloud solutions.

Who Were Looking For:
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in cloud computing (AWS services) software development lifecycle and distributed systems.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to break down complex marketplace challenges into scalable solutions.
- Collaboration & Ownership: Thrives in agile environments and takes end-to-end responsibility for features from design to production.
- Passion for Innovation: Eagerness to push boundaries in marketplace technology security and user experience.

Why Join AWS Marketplace Engineering
- Impact at Scale: Your work will directly influences AWS Marketplace used by millions.
- Technology: Engage with AWSs most advanced infrastructure and services.
- Growth Opportunities: Advance your career in a fast-paced high-impact organization driving the future of international commerce.

Key job responsibilities
Youll operate at the intersection of technical excellence and AI transformation leadership. While building mission-critical marketplace systems youll simultaneously drive the teams evolution toward AI-empowered development practices.

Technical Leadership & Delivery:
- Lead projects by orchestrating teams of engineers to deliver features through rapid iteration cycles
- Own architecture decisions for partner-facing systems
- Drive technical design as living specifications that evolve with implementation ensuring continuous stakeholder alignment
- Build secured highly available performant systems on native AWS services

AI Transformation Leadership:
- Demonstrate and evangelize advanced AI-assisted development practices where AI handles significant portions of the development lifecycle
- Drive adoption of spec-driven development ensuring work starts with executable specifications validated by stakeholders before implementation
- Mentor team members on AI-assisted workflows prompt engineering excellence and progression toward higher levels of AI-empowered development
- Participate in continuous improvement rituals identifying constraints across the development lifecycle and resolving them quickly
- Champion AI-first approaches for operational excellence work using intelligent tools before manual intervention
- Shift focus from code generation to code verification leveraging AI for quality validation and automated testing

A day in the life
You begin by reviewing initiative progress then use AI to automate module implementation while focusing on security and testing. You mentor a teammate on advanced prompting team meetings you analyze metrics showing faster deployments but spot system complexity issues which the team resolves in the next sprint. You document lessons learned and end the day shipping a feature that cuts manual partner interventions celebrating the success with your team.

About the team
Your Domain: Partner Onboarding & Journey Automation
Own the end-to-end partner journey from registration to co-sell readiness by designing intuitive seamless experiences. This includes:

Managing registration account oversight and program enrollment
Defining go-to-market strategies and meeting AWS technical/training requirements
Partners connect with peers gain approval to collaborate directly with AWS sales teams list opportunities in Partner Central and access AWS seller support to close deals.

Post-readiness drive AWS Marketplace success across three channels:

Co-sell (collaborative selling with AWS teams)
Direct-to-Customer (Marketplace listings)
Re-sell (channel partner distribution)

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

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

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.



- 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
- 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.

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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 TX Austin - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually