Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Builder Acceleration

Are you passionate about leveraging GenAI and advanced AWS technologies to simplify builder experience and accelerate innovations at AWS scale We are building a new organization AWS Builder Acceleration (AWSBA) focused on reducing toil and increasing building efficiency across AWS builders. Our mission is to accelerate AWS builder teams innovation by eliminating friction throughout the software development and operational lifecycle. Through AI based automated solutions and centralized service management we address fundamental challenges including Keep The Light On (KTLO) service maintenance burden launch readiness complexities and recurring operational load. Through continuous collaboration with builder teams to identify emerging challenges we shape our strategic roadmap to reinvent the development and operational ecosystem.

We are seeking an SDE III to help AWSBA simplify and accelerate the software development experience for 20000 AWS engineers. You will shape AWS builder experience from the ground up with a singular mission: make software development deployment and maintenance simpler across AWS. Success requires building services and tools that reduce friction listening closely to what your internal customers tell you gets in the way of building influencing the Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) roadmap and driving transformation for engineering teams. You will harness advanced technologies including AI-powered tooling agentic workflows and innovative AWS solutions to create next-generation software builder experience at AWS scale.

This role requires ownership leadership and an ability to create visions and deliver results. You should be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving. Clear communication and prioritization will be important as you partner with stakeholders to plan design and deliver game changing builder experiences to accelerate innovation. Your passion for improving builder experiences and proven experience managing complex technology projects will help you make strong strategic judgments. Your expertise is deep and broad. You start with the customers (builders) and work backwards to develop a coherent vision for services and tools that support the efficiency flexibility and scale that builders expect from us. You have built and operated systems that support high-end business complexity and scale with simple and elegant solutions that are highly decoupled. You will join a select team of innovators creating the next generation of AWS builder experiences that will shape the companys future.

Key job responsibilities
- Imagining designing and building new primitives and capabilities using teams of agents and knowledge sources with significant autonomy.
- Learning how to teach and teaching how to learn. Peers agents and customers.
- Identifying the larger processes in which the primitives you work on are embedded and evaluating the impact of your changes on end-to-end throughput and performance.
- Failing openly and quickly in a way that captures and integrates your learning into rapidly evolving best practice. Unsuccessful experiments advance the state of the art when we learn from them.
- Never repeating the same operational task in exactly the same way twice. Repeatable processes get automation nondeterministic ones get factored into smaller units of work novel failure modes are studied. Manual grinding spins no flywheels.

A day in the life
You should have deep expertise in the architecture and business use of AWS technologies. You recognize the transformative potential of generative AI in software development and are excited to pioneer AI-powered builder experiences that fundamentally change how developers write debug deploy and operate code at scale. You remain technically hands-on and close to the technology. Youre passionate about developer experience and get frustrated by inefficiencies that make building software unnecessarily difficult. You understand the challenges AWS developers face today and collaborate with team members to simplify the AWS developer experience. You have experience contributing to complex software development initiatives. Youll strive for simplicity and will demonstrate significant creativity.

About the team
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- 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

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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