Sr SDE, AWS Agentic AI

External job description

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 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.

Key job 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

A day in the life
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About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its 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.

- 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

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually