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Software Development Engineer III

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    16 days ago

    Job Description

    AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, the data centers and the compute, storage, networking, power, and cooling that keep the cloud running. Behind that physical footprint is a large and growing software estate, and that is where our team lives. We build the systems that plan, price, and orchestrate this infrastructure at scale, solving problems with thousands of variables, and we"re looking for talented software engineers who want to help.

    You"ll join a team of software engineers building large-scale distributed systems, data pipelines, and ML- and agentic-powered automation, working alongside product, finance, and supply chain partners across AWS. You"ll help deliver the highest standards for reliability and security while giving the business the tools to provide seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost. And you"ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

    Come build with the AWS Supply Chain team and create software that lets AWS grow rapidly and stay the pioneer and recognized leader in cloud computing, with direct and immediate impact on the hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world who rely on AWS every day.

    Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems are at the heart of ensuring we provide our customers with the right computing capacity, in the right region, at the right time. Our team owns the pricing, quoting, and sourcing systems that determine what AWS pays for the hardware that builds the cloud. We build the platforms that generate and validate vendor quotes, drive competitive sourcing and negotiation, and give Finance and procurement teams the cost visibility they need to plan and control a multi-billion-dollar hardware supply chain. Our systems span dynamic quote generation, vendor-facing portals, sourcing and RFQ workflows, and the data pipelines that feed cost estimation and reporting across the org.

    We are investing heavily in bringing machine learning and agentic automation into this space, using models to estimate hardware costs ahead of vendor quotes so we can unblock planning and budgeting earlier, and building LLM-powered agentic workflows that automate the manual, judgment-heavy steps in quoting, sourcing, and vendor operations. This is a chance to apply modern ML and GenAI to a domain where a better estimate or a faster workflow translates directly into billions of dollars of capital efficiency.

    As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the team, you will guide your team through the design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products spanning large-scale distributed backend services, data pipelines, ML-driven cost estimation, and agentic automation. You will help build the technical roadmap, raise the engineering bar, and develop the engineers around you. You will have sound technical acumen, excellent project-management skills, and strong communication skills. You are a true owner, deeply interested in product design, who innovates on behalf of our customers. We have a very flat team structure and offer a unique opportunity for technical leaders who want to work closely with the business to define, design, build, and operate products used across AWS.

    Key job responsibilities

    1. Design, implement, and deploy large-scale, secure, low-latency services and data pipelines that power pricing, quoting, sourcing, and cost estimation for AWS hardware

    2. Lead the development of ML and statistical models for cost estimation and forecasting, and drive them from prototype to production with the right accuracy, monitoring, and business guardrails

    3. Build agentic and LLM-powered workflows that automate manual steps in quoting, sourcing, and vendor operations, including evaluation and quality controls for non-deterministic systems

    4. Functionally decompose complex, ambiguous supply-chain problems into simple, straightforward solutions, and understand system interdependencies and limitations

    5. Partner with Finance, procurement, and vendor-facing teams to translate business problems into technical solutions, and drive measurable impact

    6. Share knowledge in performance, scalability, system architecture, ML/GenAI practices, and engineering best practices, and mentor engineers across the team

    A day in the life

    No two days look the same. You might spend the morning in a design review shaping how a new cost-estimation service fits into our platform, the afternoon deep in implementation or pairing with a teammate on a hard problem, and part of the day bringing machine learning or an agentic workflow into a process that used to be manual. Along the way you"ll review code, partner with Finance and procurement to sharpen requirements, help keep the services you own healthy, and mentor the engineers around you. It"s a builder"s role with real ownership and direct line of sight to the business impact of what you ship.

    About the team

    Our team sits within AWS Infrastructure Services Supply Chain Management, close to the money and the decisions. We own the pricing, quoting, and sourcing systems that determine what AWS pays for cloud hardware, and we are actively replacing manual, judgment-heavy processes with ML-driven cost estimation and agentic automation. We are a flat, high-ownership software engineering team that partners daily with Finance, procurement, and vendor-facing teams. We value technical excellence, thoughtful collaboration, and getting the details right, because a single cost estimate can drive billions of dollars of planning. Engineers here get to define a new technical direction, and we are looking for people who want to grow alongside us.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Budget Managementunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Code Reviewsunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Cost Estimatesunmatched
    • Cost Forecastingunmatched
    • Cost Reportingunmatched
    • Data Managementunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
    • Network Operations Centerunmatched
    • Operational Auditunmatched
    • Pricingunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Designunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
    • Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Statistical Modelingunmatched
    • Supply Chainunmatched
    • Supply Chain Managementunmatched
    • System Architectureunmatched
    • Systems Scalabilityunmatched
    • Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
    • Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
    • Vendor/Supplier Sourcingunmatched

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