Software Development Engineer, AWS Marketplace Engineering

Amazon • Austin, TX

32d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Remote

About The Position

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-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.

As a Software Development Engineer on the AWS Marketplace Engineering team, you will design, build, and maintain core components of the AWS Marketplace platform. You will create high-performance, secure, and scalable systems that transform how buyers and sellers engage with cloud solutions across AWS.

You will own critical aspects of the AWS Marketplace platform, including:

- Buyer & Seller Experiences
- Building intuitive: Interfaces for product discovery, pricing, subscriptions, and deployment workflows.
- Integration Frameworks: Developing APIs and services that connect AWS Marketplace with AWS products, partner ecosystems, and third-party platforms.
- Marketplace Automation: Creating tools for product listing approvals, compliance checks, and automated billing/payout systems.
- Performance & Reliability: Ensuring the platform handles millions of transactions daily with low latency and high availability.
- Security & Compliance: Implementing safeguards for data integrity, payment processing, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2).

What Makes This Role Unique?
- AWS Marketplace Engineering sits at the intersection of massive scale and user-centric innovation. You’ll work on systems that:
- Power Global Transactions: Enable billions of dollars in annual commerce across 180+ countries.
- Drive Partner Success: Equip software vendors with tools to reach millions of AWS customers.
- Accelerate Cloud Adoption: Simplify how businesses discover and deploy cloud solutions.

Who We’re Looking For:
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in cloud computing (AWS services), software development lifecycle, and distributed systems.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to break down complex marketplace challenges into scalable solutions.
- Collaboration & Ownership: Thrives in agile environments and takes end-to-end responsibility for features from design to production.
- Passion for Innovation: Eagerness to push boundaries in marketplace technology, security, and user experience.

Why Join AWS Marketplace Engineering?
- Impact at Scale: Your work will directly influences AWS Marketplace used by millions.
- Technology: Engage with AWS’s most advanced infrastructure and services.
- Growth Opportunities: Advance your career in a fast-paced, high-impact organization driving the future of international commerce.

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 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
- 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

Requirements

• 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 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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Proficiency in cloud computing (AWS services)
• Proficiency in software development lifecycle
• Proficiency in distributed systems
• Ability to break down complex marketplace challenges into scalable solutions
• Thrives in agile environments and takes end-to-end responsibility for features from design to production
• Eagerness to push boundaries in marketplace technology, security, and user experience

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Own the end-to-end partner journey from registration to co-sell readiness by designing intuitive, seamless experiences
• Manage registration, account oversight, and program enrollment
• Define go-to-market strategies and meeting AWS technical/training requirements
• Drive AWS Marketplace success across three channels: Co-sell (collaborative selling with AWS teams), Direct-to-Customer (Marketplace listings), and Re-sell (channel partner distribution)

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior