AmazonSoftware Development Engineer, Rendering Foundations
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Rendering Foundations in Vancouver, Canada. It pays CAD 115k-CAD 192k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Build authoring interfaces, toolchains, and evaluation pipelines that builders and AI agents use to create shopping experiences.
Our team builds the experience orchestration platform behind the Amazon store. It composes independently owned experiences into complete pages at Amazon scale and powers experiences such as Amazon Detail Page across web and app. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join a new team in Vancouver that owns agentic CX and experience orchestration authoring. The team builds the authoring interfaces and toolchain that builders and AI agents use to create shopping experiences. This includes a typed, schema-generated construct library, the build pipeline that validates and synthesizes what authors write, and the evals that measure how well agents author against it.
You are the ideal candidate if you love building developer tools, are curious about how AI agents write and reason about code, and want to grow on a greenfield team where your work shapes the platform from day one. You write clean, well-tested code, learn quickly, and enjoy working through ambiguous problems with your teammates.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain features for the authoring library, including generating constructs from the platform's schema and building higher-level abstractions for common layout patterns.
- Build and improve the build pipeline that validates and synthesizes authored layouts, including conformance tests that keep authored output consistent with how the platform runs it.
- Contribute to evaluation pipelines that score agent-generated output against known-good results, and use the results to improve the authoring experience for AI agents.
- Improve developer experience through linting, IDE and build integrations, documentation, and examples that help builders and AI assistants succeed.
- Use AI-native development practices day to day, and help the team adopt new tools and workflows.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and operational support for the systems the team owns.
- Partner with senior engineers and partner teams to turn prototypes into production capabilities.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain features for the authoring library, including generating constructs from the platform's schema and building higher-level abstractions for common layout patterns.
- Build and improve the build pipeline that validates and synthesizes authored layouts, including conformance tests that keep authored output consistent with how the platform runs it.
- Contribute to evaluation pipelines that score agent-generated output against known-good results, and use the results to improve the authoring experience for AI agents.
- Improve developer experience through linting, IDE and build integrations, documentation, and examples that help builders and AI assistants succeed.
- Use AI-native development practices day to day, and help the team adopt new tools and workflows.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and operational support for the systems the team owns.
- Partner with senior engineers and partner teams to turn prototypes into production capabilities.
Basic qualifications
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of full stack development experience
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually
How we rate this
Software Development Engineer, Rendering Foundations at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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