Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Config

Amazon Web Services has enabled large enterprises and growing startups to move quickly by increasing developer productivity. Security auditability and governance in the cloud has moved from being a top concern to top reason for adopting Cloud services. AWS Config and Config Rules have been leading this transition by providing insights into user activity change tracking and automated security and compliance tools.

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Development Engineer to join a highly respected team building one of the largest configuration audit platforms in the world. We are building agentic AI solutions that automate the end-to-end lifecycle of resource type onboarding - from research and schema authoring through testing validation and deployment. Youll work at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and AI-driven automation designing agents that can reason about AWS service APIs author configuration schemas and validate correctness with minimal human intervention.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

Key job responsibilities
- Design build and operate high-scale highly available distributed services that extend AWS Config.
- Design and build AI agent orchestration systems that automate resource type onboarding at scale
- Own solutions across the full lifecycle: design implementation deployment monitoring and support.
- Own operational excellence for agentic workflows - monitoring alerting and self-healing mechanisms
- Mentor and guide junior engineers through design reviews and constructive rigorous code reviews.
- Bring structure to ambiguous problems manage competing priorities and make data-driven decisions.

- 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 6 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 6 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
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

- 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
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques

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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