Sr SDE, AWS Agentic AI

Amazon • Seattle, WA

4d

About The Position

In this role, you will build new or enhance existing Bedrock AgentCore services
that are going to be trend setting in the Agentic AI field. This is an area that
requires solving the hardest engineering challenges to enable machine learning
powered solutions for our customers. As a tier one Amazon service our solutions
have to be scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant. Experience with machine
learning systems is preferred, but not required. You will deliver some of our
most strategic technical projects, deliver large scalable systems, design new
software systems at the forefront of distributed database technology and have a
significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position. In
addition to delivering critical software, you will draw from a deep and broad
technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex
technical issues. This position within the AWS Agentic AI team presents a unique
and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing
business and help shape the technology, product and the business. A successful
candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, desire to have an
industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving, startup
environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad
business impact.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our
culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000
employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings,
and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations
on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences. Amazon’s culture of
inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team
members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn’t about how many hours
you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings
energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between
your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and
fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find
your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice To Haves

• 5+ 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

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core policy enforcement infrastructure including APIs, policy evaluation engines, and integration with gateway
• Build policy authoring and validation capabilities, including natural language-based policy generation and automated reasoning to catch policy errors before enforcement
• Develop fine-grained access control mechanisms that enable secure, scalable deployment of autonomous AI agents in enterprise environments
• Build monitoring, observability, and audit logging to support production reliability, compliance, and operational excellence
• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for policy evaluation performance, security integrations, and cross-account access patterns
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and best practices

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level