Software Development Engineer, Shopping

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Shopping

We’re enhancing the shopping experience on Amazon through the conversational capabilities of large language models, and we’re looking for innovative professionals who are passionate about technology and customer experience. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the industry while working alongside talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers to create solutions that serve our customers.

• Architect, design, and develop agentic services and applications powered by large language models.
• Build expertise in online service architecture, API development, and distributed systems that power responsive agentic AI applications at scale.
• Develop service orchestration patterns, efficient agent frameworks, and real‑time processing systems.
• Partner with engineers and scientists to deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap, service reliability metrics, and optimizations focused on building intelligent agents that can effectively reason, plan, and execute complex tasks on behalf of users.
• Help establish best practices that improve LLM application efficiency and enable new agentic AI features for Store customers.
• Design and implement large‑scale distributed agentic AI applications at scale, collaborating with technical and business leaders.
• Participate in prioritization, estimation, and sprint planning activities.

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ year of experience as a software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ year 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.
• 1+ year 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.
• Knowledge of machine learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference life cycles, and optimization techniques.
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience building or operating LLM‑powered agent systems (tool use, ReAct loops, multi‑step orchestration).
• Experience with agent evaluation frameworks—offline evaluation, LLM‑as‑Judge, composite scoring, or quality measurement at scale.
• Experience hosting or serving large language models at scale (model deployment, inference optimization, GPU cluster management, vLLM/TensorRT).

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Amazon offers a competitive base salary, sign‑on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. For more details, visit the Amazon benefits page.