Amazon

Senior Software Engineer, AI & Strategic Partner Engineering

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3 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA or Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$168k - $262k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define technical direction, own architectural decisions, and drive alignment across engineering and partner teams.
  • Design and deliver integrations between strategic partners such as SAP and AWS-native services.
  • Build agentic AI, LLM-powered workflows, distributed systems, secure architectures, data flows, identity management, and compliance capabilities.
  • Own full-stack delivery from design through production with emphasis on availability, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Rapidly prototype and validate solutions using AI agents and load testing.
  • Create technical specifications, participate in product definition, architecture reviews, iterative development, code reviews, and operations.
  • Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with Product, Security, AI Research, customers, and partner service teams.
  • Troubleshoot complex distributed-system failures and represent the team externally to partners and leadership.
  • Travel occasionally for co-development engineering with partners.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
  • Knowledge of machine learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training and inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques.
  • Preferred: 7+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Preferred: knowledge of professional software engineering practices across architecture, code review, source control, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
  • Preferred: experience creating, maintaining, and deploying multiple autonomous AI agents into production for enterprise customers and partners, including robust guardrails.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the compensation package.
  • Work-life flexibility, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, affinity groups, inclusion events, and career-development resources.
  • Occasional travel may be required for partner engineering work.
  • The listed base salary ranges are $193,300.00-$261,500.00 annually in Santa Clara, California, and $168,100.00-$227,400.00 annually in Seattle, Washington.

Tech Stack

Amazon

About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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