Software Development Engineer, Vendor Agentic Experience

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Vendor Agentic Experience in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AI agents, software development and distributed systems.
Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

Build intelligent autonomous agentic experiences and distributed systems for selling partners using GenAI.

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Are you passionate about working with Amazon-scale systems, solving critical engineering problems, and delivering mission-critical agentic solutions? Does the idea of building intelligent, autonomous experiences that empower Selling Partners excite you? If yes, then we want to talk with you.

Vendor Experience Team is looking for a dynamic engineer to join our agentic experiences team for Selling Partners. Our mission is to deliver world-class AI-powered experiences that delights our Selling Partners. Selling Partners depend on us to provide robust and scalable AI-powered solutions that help them make faster, data-driven decisions and automate complex workflows to grow their business. We are looking for Engineers with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for delivering creative solutions for complex problems on an unprecedented scale. As part of the team, you will have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers, and build solutions that will achieve our vision of world-class AI-powered experiences. Successful candidates will be innovative, flexible, self-directed, and able to design and write high-performance, reliable, maintainable code. They must also be able to design and develop innovative GenAI powered agentic solutions to accelerate time to market. The ability to function at a very high level in a fast-paced environment along with a team of very talented engineers is essential. If you enjoy working in a dynamic environment to deliver world class mission critical systems, this may be the career opportunity for you!

Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative agentic products and services to market.
• Design and build agentic systems enabling autonomous agents that can execute multi-step workflows on behalf of Selling Partners.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Build visualization experiences that allow Selling Partners to interact with and explore LLM-generated insights.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.

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
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution

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, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Vendor Agentic Experience at Amazon rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Development Engineer, Vendor Agentic Experience is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $144k-$194k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on September 14, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agentsSoftware DevelopmentDistributed SystemsGenAIAgentic WorkflowsLLM

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Pay

This job starts at: $144k
Typical software engineer job: $167k

This posting starts 14% below the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

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