Senior Developer Advocate, Generative AI, AWS Developer Experience

At AWS were looking for technical pioneers who are shaping the future of AI. As a Senior Developer Advocate on our Developer Experience team youll combine your software development expertise with your passion for building developer communities. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how the next generation of AI applications are built while working alongside the creators and innovators in this rapidly evolving space.
Our ideal candidate is someone who lives and breathes code has a track record of building production generative AI applications and brings fresh perspectives to complex technical challenges. You understand the transformative potential of foundation models and autonomous agents and youre excited to help developers harness these technologies effectively.


Key job responsibilities
In this role youll drive technical initiatives that showcase the full potential of generative AI on AWS from proof-of-concepts to production-ready solutions. Youll work with emerging standards and frameworks like Model Context Protocol (MCP) Agent2Agent (A2A) communication protocols and Strands Agents to shape the future of AI application development. Your days might involve creating compelling technical demonstrations of autonomous agents using these technologies building production-ready implementations with foundation models or sharing deep technical insights through conference talks and live coding sessions. Through direct collaboration with engineering teams youll help shape both AWS AI services and the broader open-source AI ecosystem.

Youll be at the forefront of developing and sharing best practices for integrating advanced AI capabilities into robust scalable applications with a particular focus on autonomous and agentic systems. Through your hands-on development work and community engagement youll identify developer pain points work cross-functionally to influence product roadmaps and contribute to open source projects. Your technical content whether its code samples architecture patterns or implementation guides will help developers build better AI applications.
A key aspect of this role is the opportunity to work with a broad range of partners. Youll collaborate with industry leaders like Anthropic Meta and others showcasing how their technologies integrate with AWS services to create onnovative AI solutions. This exposure will allow you to stay at the leading edge of AI development across the industry and bring diverse perspectives to the developer community.

This role will require up to 25% travel (mostly within mainland USA).


About the team
Were a group of builders and innovators who are passionate about defining the future of software development. Our mission is to break new ground in how developers leverage generative AI and to foster a vibrant community of practitioners who push the boundaries of whats possible on AWS. We believe in learning by doing sharing our knowledge openly and working closely with the developer community to solve real-world challenges.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.


* Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
* 7 years of software development experience
* Proven track record of building production applications with generative AI technologies; including designing robust AI system interactions and building autonomous agent applications
* Strong programming skills in one or more of the following programming languages: Python TypeScript Java or Go
* Active participation in developer communities including technical content creation and public speaking

* Deep expertise in large language models and autonomous agent architectures
* Significant contributions to open-source AI projects
* Experience building with AWS generative AI services
* Established presence in AI developer communities
* Track record of creating influential technical content including speaking at major technical conferences
* Experience mentoring and growing developer communities
* Familiarity with AI offerings from major cloud providers and AI-focused companies

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $124100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $277700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.