Solutions Developer, Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE)

Amazon • Herndon, VA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team is seeking experienced technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills. As trusted customer advocates, the PACE team helps customers create early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. As a Solutions Developer, you will partner with customers and AWS account and service teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient solutions that address customer business problems and accelerate AWS adoption. You'll shape and build prototypes across domains including Machine Learning, Agentic Design, Serverless Architecture, and multi-modal Generative AI—with most projects exploring the art of the possible using the latest methods, frameworks, services, and models. You'll work across industry verticals including automotive, energy, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical—you will help drive revenue growth and strategic outcomes for customers, influencing adoption decisions and accelerating customer success with AWS.

Requirements

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
• Experience working with agile development methodologies
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language, or experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
• Knowledge of a modern programming language (Ruby, Java, Python, or C#)
• Proficient in the use of AI coding tools to improve quality and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers and AWS account and service teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient solutions that address customer business problems and accelerate AWS adoption.
• Shape and build prototypes across domains including Machine Learning, Agentic Design, Serverless Architecture, and multi-modal Generative AI.
• Work across industry verticals including automotive, energy, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.
• Connect technology with measurable business value to help drive revenue growth and strategic outcomes for customers.
• Influence adoption decisions and accelerate customer success with AWS.
• Combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability, comfortable at both the whiteboard and keyboard.
• Push the technical bar by taking initiative to learn new topics and experiment across domains such as AI, serverless, Agentic Design, and Physical AI in enterprise contexts.
• Own key development tasks from design through implementation with some supervision, delivering to a high standard.
• Establish trust by defining clear paths forward and reviewing them with senior team members for feedback.
• Contribute on larger projects with others and in some cases independently on smaller ones.
• Identify ways to invent and simplify by contributing to scaling and code re-use projects within the team.
• Pursue thought leadership by offering blogs and workshop content at customer events.
• Take an active part in learning and applying AI-assisted coding methods and tools to work and share learnings with customers.
• Continuously seek better ways to apply emerging technology to customer projects.
• Work backwards to learn about customer outcomes and design innovative solutions that you design, build and test along with program managers, and specialists to deliver results.
• Serve as project lead on some engagements and contributing part-time on others.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed