Software Dev Engineer, AWS DevOps Agent

Do you want to build the next generation of Agentic AI developer and operations tools

We are the AWS DevOps Agent Chat team under the Agentic AI DevOps organization. Were building intelligent DevOps assistance through Agentic Chat that transforms how customers interact with their AWS DevOPS Agent space or AWS infrastructure. Our AI teammate is always available understands context across investigations provides real-time insights and helps prevent incidents before they occur.

As a Software Development Engineer on our team youll work directly with Large Language Models (LLMs) and build agents that enhance customer experiences at scale. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to design and deliver reliable scalable and highly performant AI systems. Youll work extensively with AWS Agent Core Amazon Bedrock prompt engineering techniques and agentic solutions while collaborating closely with Applied Scientists and AI experts. You will build rapid prototypes and proofs of concept in partnership with technology leaders across the team tackling challenging novel problems every day alongside multiple technical teams at AWS.

We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer with a strong technical background customer obsession and bias for action. You should have a proven track record of delivering robust solutions quickly. Strong judgment and communication skills long-term technical vision and relentless focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for success in this role. You will demonstrate technical proficiency mentor and grow junior engineers champion software development best practices and iterate quickly to deliver results.

We foster a collaborative environment where innovation thrives and technical excellence is the standard. Every team member has the opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered DevOps while maintaining work-life balance and pursuing continuous learning.

Key job responsibilities
Design and build innovative AI-powered technologies in a large distributed computing environment that deliver meaningful customer impact.
Develop LLM-based content generation workflows that are reliable scalable and performant.
Partner with Applied Scientists to implement prompt tuning and LLM-as-a-judge techniques that power intelligent user experiences.
Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams across Amazon to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
Solve broadly defined problems by designing and coding the right solutions with sound technical judgment.
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software quickly while maintaining engineering excellence.

A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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About the team
The Planes team builds the control plane data plane integrations and triage agent that let AWS DevOps Agent operate safely inside thousands of customer environments.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 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

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

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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 - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually