Senior Software Development Engineer, Rendering Foundations – Amazon – Vancouver, BC

Vancouver’s tech scene is home to some genuinely complex engineering challenges, and this one sits right at the top. Amazon is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Product UI Service (PUIS) team — a Tier-1 rendering system that processes hundreds of millions of requests daily and directly shapes the shopping experience for customers worldwide. If you’re the kind of engineer who thrives at the intersection of distributed systems, rendering infrastructure, and customer-facing UI, this role is worth a serious look.

PUIS is Amazon’s centralized, standalone ASIN faceout rendering engine. It decouples product presentation logic from every upstream surface — Search, Homepage, Detail Page, and beyond — enabling consistent, high-quality product displays at scale through a recipe-driven configuration system. In this role, you’ll own the architecture roadmap, drive multi-year modernization initiatives, and connect the dots across multiple teams to deliver highly performant solutions to Store Builders.

About the Role: Senior Software Development Engineer, Rendering Foundations

This isn’t a role where you’re maintaining someone else’s system — you’re shaping the next generation of rendering technologies at Amazon. You’ll own the architectural strategy for PUIS, design and build new capabilities in the Java/Coral-based service layer, and drive improvements across component-level architecture — from the ComponentRegistry and KataRenderer to ASINFaceoutConfig and ADP-driven layout selection. Your work will directly enable key shopping experiences like Search to regularly modernize their rendering solutions.

Collaboration is central to this position. You’ll work closely with partner teams across Search, Homepage, Detail Page, NavX, and emerging surfaces including Reforge and AI-native shopping experiences. You’ll also be responsible for raising the bar on operational posture — latency, availability, on-call burden reduction, and alarm hygiene — for a service where any degradation is immediately visible to customers. Mentoring emerging talent and representing the team in cross-org technical discussions are equally important parts of the mandate.

Benefits and Salary

Amazon offers a competitive base salary range of $150,700 to $251,700 CAD annually for this position in Vancouver, BC. As a total compensation company, the package may also include sign-on payments and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D), a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and additional resources to support health and well-being.

Responsibilities

As a Senior SDE on the PUIS team, your day-to-day work spans architectural leadership, hands-on development, and cross-team collaboration. You’ll be accountable for one of Amazon’s most critical retail services, making decisions that affect the experience of millions of shoppers globally. Here’s what the role looks like in practice:

• Own the architecture roadmap and strategy across PUIS, driving multi-year initiatives to simplify and modernize the technology stack and operational posture
• Design and build new capabilities in PUIS’s Java/Coral-based service layer, including product rendering pipelines, recipe configuration management, and AAPI resource integration
• Lead component-level architecture across PUIS — from the ComponentRegistry and KataRenderer to ASINFaceoutConfig and ADP-driven layout selection — improving extensibility and developer experience for partner teams
• Raise operational standards for latency, availability, on-call burden reduction, and alarm hygiene across a service where any degradation is immediately customer-visible
• Collaborate with partner teams across Search, Homepage, Detail Page, NavX, and emerging surfaces (Reforge, AI-native shopping experiences) to ship new product display capabilities with weblab-gated precision
• Drive the team’s test strategy and quality framework as PUIS expands to support the next generation of mShop experiences
• Mentor and develop emerging talent on the team and represent the team in cross-org technical discussions

Requirements / Skills

Amazon is looking for a senior engineer with deep experience in large-scale distributed systems and a track record of leading technical initiatives from design through delivery. The ideal candidate brings both strong architectural instincts and the interpersonal skills to align multiple teams around a shared technical vision.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in a non-internship capacity
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of design/architecture leadership experience, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead — guiding others and representing teams in technical forums
• Full software development life cycle experience including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations (preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred)

How to Apply

To apply, visit the official Amazon job posting using the link below. Make sure your resume is up to date and reflects your most relevant experience before submitting.

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