Software Development Engineer II, OrcaLabs

Do you want to build systems that sit at the heart of how Amazon runs its business and help define how AI agents interact with those systems in the future Are you excited by distributed systems workflow orchestration and agentic AI at Amazon scale

The Center of Excellence for Orchestration (ORCA) is looking for a Software Development Engineer II to help build and evolve Amazons tier-1 multi-tenant orchestration platform. ORCA powers mission-critical business workflows across Amazon and is used by thousands of developers to automate complex processes without building and operating their own orchestration infrastructure.

ORCA handles the hard parts of distributed workflow execution so customers can focus on business logic. Were now evolving the platform for an AI-native world by building AI-assisted workflow development automated testing and diagnostics intelligent operational support and new ways for AI agents to safely discover invoke and compose business capabilities.

As an SDE II on ORCA youll design and build highly available distributed systems solve challenging scalability and reliability problems and help shape the foundation that connects traditional workflow automation with emerging agentic experiences. Youll own projects from design through production and work closely with experienced engineers and customers across Amazon.

If you enjoy solving hard systems problems building platforms that simplify development at scale and shaping how workflows and AI agents come together wed love to have you join ORCA!

Key job responsibilities
- Design build test deploy and operate scalable features for ORCAs tier-1 orchestration platform owning work across the full software development lifecycle.
- Build agentic and AI-assisted capabilities that help developers design test troubleshoot and operate workflows and enable AI agents to safely discover invoke and compose business capabilities.
- Design reliable distributed systems that handle workflow execution scheduling retries throttling fault tolerance scaling and observability across a multi-tenant platform used by thousands of developers.
- Participate in code reviews design discussions and technical planning providing thoughtful feedback and incorporating input from senior engineers to improve system quality.
- Collaborate with product security architecture and customer teams to understand requirements evaluate tradeoffs and deliver simple scalable solutions aligned with ORCAs long-term platform strategy.
- Help shape emerging patterns for how workflows business capabilities and AI agents interact securely and reliably at Amazon scale.

A day in the life
Your day might start by building a new ORCA platform or agentic capability reviewing code or working through a design for how AI agents discover and invoke business capabilities. Later you may collaborate with teammates on a scaling or reliability challenge meet with customers to understand a new use case and ship your work through the deployment pipeline. Along the way youll contribute to design discussions and help shape how ORCA evolves for an AI-native future.

About the team
The Center of Excellence for Orchestration (ORCA) is a collaborative team focused on making it easier for Amazon teams to build and operate complex business processes at scale. We work across distributed systems developer experience and emerging agentic technologies partnering closely with customers and teams across Amazon.

Were shaping the next generation of orchestration where workflows business capabilities and AI agents come together securely and reliably. Youll have the opportunity to work on foundational technology with broad impact while learning from experienced engineers and helping influence ORCAs future.

- 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 software development engineer or related occupational 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
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design 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

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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 - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually