Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Seller Assistant
Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help define and build the next generation of Amazon Seller Assistant. You will partner with scientists and engineers to launch production-grade agentic capabilities at Amazons scale owning your problem space end-to-end from a clear customer insight to a shipped product that millions of sellers rely on.
Key job responsibilities
Lead the design and development of agentic software systems across the full lifecycle from working backwards on a seller problem through technical design implementation testing deployment and ongoing maintenance.
Own your teams architectural direction for multi-agent services influence technical decisions in dependent systems and guide technology choices by evaluating tradeoffs in scalability extensibility performance and security.
Collaborate with applied scientists partner engineering teams and product managers to translate GenAI research into reliable production-grade seller-facing features.
Mentor and coach multiple engineers drive adoption of engineering best practices and contribute to team growth through recruiting technical assessments and career guidance.
Evaluate when and how to integrate generative AI tooling into development workflows refine model outputs using responsible practices and apply well-chosen data structures and algorithms to solve problems efficiently.
A day in the life
You start by reviewing a technical design document from a teammate sharpening the approach before the team commits to implementation. Later you lead a working session with engineers from a partner team to align on an interface contract between your services. After lunch you write code for a critical agentic component applying patterns that others on your team will reference as they build adjacent features. You wrap up by pairing with a junior engineer on a tricky debugging session turning it into a coaching moment.
About the team
Amazon Seller Assistant team operates at the very frontier of agentic AI and agentic commerce not as a research group but as a team shipping production-grade multi-agent systems used by millions of sellers worldwide. We move with the urgency of a startup and the resources of the worlds most customer-obsessed company transforming the latest breakthroughs in science and engineering into capabilities that sellers rely on every day.
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language 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
- 5 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
- Experience identifying opportunities to integrate AI solutions into products and services to drive business value
- Demonstrated experience leveraging generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency and productivity with the ability to craft effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs in a professional setting
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 WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
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