Senior Solutions Developer, Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE)
About the role
As trusted customer advocates, the Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills. As a prototype developer, you will partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains across a range of industry verticals like automotive, energy, health care, telco, manufacturing and media and entertainment. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role. In this role, it's imperative that you're self-guided and disciplined in managing your time to ensure success. You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains such as AI/ML, AR/VR/Spatial, IoT and Serverless. Most prototypes explore the art of the possible with Generative AI.
Key job responsibilities
- Engage with customers on a specific use case to determine desired outcomes, define a scope and design and implement it (code, CDK, docs) with a small team of developers in 6 weeks
- Identify opportunities to scale your impact through internal and external facing initiatives
- Mentor others
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes
- 5+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning), GenAI (Generative AI), Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
Skills and qualities
- Passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers which are primarily large enterprises
- Past experience working as a developer or hands-on solutions architect
- Enjoy keeping existing technical skills honed and developing new ones
- Regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS
- Combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability (comfortable on the white-board and also on the keyboard)
- Engage often in early stages of customer use-cases and also in competitive situations
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, good communication and being hands-on
- Often the lead technical person in the room, collaborating with other senior leaders from technical and business domains
- Appetite and initiative to learn new topics and experiment, covering domains such as AI/ML, agentic design, serverless and IoT in an enterprise context
- Dynamic and creative, willing to take on complex challenges and make a big impact
- Love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun
A day in the life
While on a customer prototype engagement, you will work collaboratively with other developers, Customer Success Manager and specialists to deliver results. The small team working on the prototype will change from project to project based on availability, specialized skills required and career growth interests. Team members come from across the US and EMEA. Larger team meetings occur periodically to share knowledge and get updates on goals, etc.
About the team
As trusted customer advocates, the Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Pay
- USA, IL, Chicago: 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, NY, New York: 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, Dallas: 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington: 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)