Software Development Engineer, Amazon Software Builder Experience (asbx) - Agentic Conversations

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Software Development

Software Development Engineer II role focused on building the infrastructure layer for managing agentic conversations and AI capabilities at Amazon scale. This involves designing and building scalable platform services for AI skills, agents, and tool integrations, developing APIs for autonomous agents, and creating systems for measuring agent quality and driving improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build scalable platform services for distributing AI skills, agents, and tool integrations to builders across Amazon
  2. Develop APIs and infrastructure that enable autonomous agents to securely access internal resources and systems
  3. Build benchmarking and prompt trace analysis systems that measure agent quality, identify regressions, and drive continuous improvement of AI capabilities
  4. Partner with teams across Amazon and AWS to onboard new AI capabilities and drive adoption across the builder ecosystem
  5. Deliver iterative improvements to production systems while driving long-term platform evolution

Skills

Required

  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • managing Amazon's agentic conversations at scale
  • build the infrastructure layer that connects generative AI to the daily work of Amazon builders
  • APIs agents call
  • platforms teams use to ship new AI capabilities company-wide
  • data pipelines that turn raw agent sessions into the signal that makes every tool better
  • thousands of engineers

Other signals

  • managing Amazon's agentic conversations at scale
  • build the infrastructure layer that connects generative AI to the daily work of Amazon builders
  • APIs agents call
  • platforms teams use to ship new AI capabilities
  • data pipelines that turn raw agent sessions into the signal that makes every tool better