Senior SDE, Luna Prime Gaming Gen AI

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Gen AI & Strategic Initiatives team that spans our Amazon Luna and Prime Gaming business. You will be a critical early member as we drive towards two key areas of AI integration 1) to create new types of Gen AI native games and gameplay experiences and 2) to enhance productivity of our internal team through the adoption of best practices and tools as well as the creation of agents.

As a Gen AI Technical Leader youll architect next-generation tools that will drive the adoption of transformative AI solutions for both external game developers as well as our internal engineering teams. You will be a hands-on builder who designs develops and operates the platform infrastructure to support both proprietary and third party models. Your expertise in distributed systems and API design will enable you to build resilient performant solutions that abstract the complexity of multiple AI providers behind unified addition to creative primitives you will also lead the work to implement agents for workstreams across Engineering Martech business intelligence and more.

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a developer-focused customer-obsessed mindset strong ownership mentality and deep expertise in building production systems at scale. This is an exciting opportunity to excel in a dynamic scrappy environment where youll shape the future of gaming with AI.


Key job responsibilities
* Drive platform architecture decisions - Work closely with GenAI leadership to understand model requirements and translate them into scalable platform capabilities; contribute to technical design reviews and architectural decisions
* Build and operate high-scale API infrastructure - Design develop and maintain secure scalable APIs using AWS API Gateway that provide unified access to multiple AI service providers including Bedrock SageMaker and vendors like ElevenLabs; implement robust authentication authorization and credential management systems
* Launch cross-functional agents - Identify key use cases to increase productivity and partner with domain experts to create agentic workflows and systems.
* Evaluate & optimize performance - Design caching strategies implement request optimization and build cost monitoring systems to deliver low-latency responses while managing expenses across multiple AI service providers
* Support developer experience and adoption - Create developer tools SDKs documentation technical demos and sample code to accelerate adoption; provide technical support and guidance to internal and external developers integrating with the platform
* Implement comprehensive observability and monitoring - Build end-to-end logging metrics alerting and dashboards to ensure operational excellence; define and monitor SLAs implement automated response systems and create runbooks for incident management
* Design throttling and resource management systems - Implement sophisticated rate limiting quota management and traffic shaping to ensure fair usage across gaming workloads while protecting underlying AI services from overload
* Ensure enterprise-grade security and compliance - Implement secure credential injection token management encryption in transit and at rest and audit logging to meet gaming industry security standards and compliance requirements
* Drive operational excellence and reliability - Build automated deployment pipelines implement chaos engineering practices conduct post-incident reviews and continuously improve system resilience and availability

About the team
The Amazon Luna Prime Gaming team is leveraging the power of the cloud to enable customers to experience the rich and immersive world of gaming on all of their existing devices. It represents an exciting and truly new product and business with a high degree of innovation and an opportunity to reach a large volume of passionate customers. The Gen AI & Strategic Initiatives team is a new cross-functional team pioneering AI-powered features that elevate gameplay and drive engagement in exciting new ways. This team works at the intersection of cloud gaming AI and interactive entertainment building experiences that will change how games are discovered developed and played by millions.

- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Proven experience with AWS services including API Gateway Lambda ECS/EKS CloudWatch and IAM
- Experience working in 0-to-1 product environments ideally in gaming or tech companies with a focus on AI
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Proven experience shipping Gen AI-powered features at scale from pilot to production and a deep understanding of AI trust and safety considerations
- Strong technical fluency in Generative AI including a deep understanding of large language models (LLMs) AI model behavior and trade-offs (e.g. model size latency cost and output quality).
- Passion for staying current with the latest developments in AI technologies and applying those insights to real-world product challenges

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Contributions to open-source AI projects
- Background in developer productivity or developer experience roles
- Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
- Background in gaming with a passion for building features that engage and delight players

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/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.