Software Development Engineer, AWS Marketplace Engineering

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer for the AWS Marketplace Engineering team in Austin, TX. You will drive the future of partner experience, building secure, scalable AI-enabled marketplace systems and leading AI-driven development across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, architecture decisions for partner-facing systems, and mentoring teammates in AI-assisted workflows and testing.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture (patterns, reliability, scaling) of large systems.
• 1+ years of SDE or related experience.
• Experience with C++, Java, or Perl and OO design.
• Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Math or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects by orchestrating teams to deliver features through rapid iteration cycles.
• Own architecture decisions for partner-facing systems.
• Drive design as living specifications that evolve with implementation and stakeholder alignment.
• Mentor team on AI-assisted workflows and prompt engineering excellence.

Skills

C++

Java

OO Design

Distributed Systems

Multi-threading

Leadership

Education

BS in CS/Engineering

Job description

Software Development Engineer, AWS Marketplace Engineering

Job ID: 10534349 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

This position is part of the AWS Acceleration team. You’ll serve as a Senior Software Development Engineer driving the future of partner experience. You’ll build secured, highly available, performant, and scalable AI systems that support the AWS partner ecosystem—helping tens of thousands of consulting and technology partners succeed across every industry, company size, and region. This role uniquely combines technical leadership with driving AI transformation across the software development lifecycle. You’ll work in collaborative teams shipping features through rapid iteration cycles while demonstrating advanced AI-assisted development practices and mentoring others on their journey toward AI-empowered delivery. AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the vital ecosystem we have created with tens of thousands of consulting and technology partners to promote AWS in every industry, size of company, and region of the world. The AWS Marketplace team serves three stakeholder groups: partners who work with us to sell AWS, customers who use AWS, and internal users responsible for driving AWS sales and adoption via partners. Your Domain: Partner Onboarding & Journey Automation

You’ll own the complete end-to-end partner journey from registration to co-sell readiness. This means reimagining what world-class partner experience looks like—delivering intuitive, cohesive experiences covering registration, account management, enrolling in applications and programs, defining go‑to‑market strategy, and meeting AWS technical and training requirements. Partners establish connections with other partners until they’re approved to collaborate directly with AWS sales teams on deals, list opportunities in Partner Central, and receive AWS seller support to close customer engagements. Beyond co‑sell readiness, the journey extends to AWS Marketplace enablement, ensuring partners become successful sellers across three channels: Co‑sell, Direct to Customer, and Re‑sell.

What Makes This Role Unique

You’ll operate at the intersection of technical excellence and AI transformation leadership. While building mission‑critical marketplace systems, you’ll simultaneously drive the team’s evolution toward AI‑empowered development practices. This isn’t just about using AI tools—it’s about fundamentally reimagining how we build software, from reactive development to proactive, AI‑assisted delivery that achieves measurable productivity improvements.

Key job responsibilities

You’ll operate at the intersection of technical excellence and AI transformation leadership. While building mission‑critical marketplace systems, you’ll simultaneously drive the team’s evolution toward AI‑empowered development practices.

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Lead projects by orchestrating teams of engineers to deliver features through rapid iteration cycles
• Own architecture decisions for partner‑facing systems
• Drive technical design as living specifications that evolve with implementation, ensuring continuous stakeholder alignment
• Build secured, highly available, performant systems on native AWS services

AI Transformation Leadership

• Demonstrate and evangelize advanced AI‑assisted development practices where AI handles significant portions of the development lifecycle
• Drive adoption of spec‑driven development, ensuring work starts with executable specifications validated by stakeholders before implementation
• Mentor team members on AI‑assisted workflows, prompt engineering excellence, and progression toward higher levels of AI‑empowered development
• Participate in continuous improvement rituals identifying constraints across the development lifecycle and resolving them quickly
• Champion AI‑first approaches for operational excellence work, using intelligent tools before manual intervention
• Shift focus from code generation to code verification, leveraging AI for quality validation and automated testing

A day in the life

You begin by reviewing initiative progress, then use AI to automate module implementation while focusing on security and testing. You mentor a teammate on advanced prompting techniques. In team meetings, you analyze metrics showing faster deployments but spot system complexity issues, which the team resolves in the next sprint. You document lessons learned and end the day shipping a feature that cuts manual partner interventions, celebrating the success with your team.

About the team

Your Domain: Partner Onboarding & Journey Automation

Own the end‑to‑end partner journey from registration to co-sell readiness by designing intuitive, seamless experiences. This includes:

• Managing registration, account oversight, and program enrollment
• Defining go‑to‑market strategies and meeting AWS technical/training requirements
• Partners connect with peers, gain approval to collaborate directly with AWS sales teams, list opportunities in Partner Central, and access AWS seller support to close deals.

Post‑readiness, drive AWS Marketplace success across three channels:

• Co‑sell (collaborative selling with AWS teams)
• Direct‑to‑Customer (Marketplace listings)
• Re‑sell (channel partner distribution)

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee‑led and company‑sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic 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
• 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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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