Software Development Engineer II, AWS AI & Strategic Partner Engineering
About the role
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-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.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver mission-critical solutions for AWS partners across various engineering domains, not limiting to security, AI/ML, distributed systems, databases, VPC, and emerging AWS services.
- Master diverse domains: Security frameworks, AI/ML pipelines, distributed databases, cloud-native infrastructure (VPC, EC2, S3, etc.), and Agentic AI/LLM integrations.
- Drive innovation through experimentation with large language models, autonomous agents, and generative AI tools to solve partner challenges.
- Own full-stack development from design to deployment, emphasizing high availability, performance, and customer delight.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Security, AI Research) to align technical strategies with business goals.
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of knowledge-sharing, while maintaining rigorous code quality through peer reviews.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Skills
- Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
- Experience developing or deploying Large Language Models in production, and deep knowledge of Agentic AI tools, agents, workflows, and integration patterns.
Benefits
Amazon 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Pay
The base salary range for this position is $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually.
Schedule
Not specified.