Software Development Manager, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is building the infrastructure and platform services that enable developers to build deploy and operate AI agents at scale. Our team delivers modular enterprise-grade servicesincluding serverless agent runtime session management memory observability gateway and identitythat work with any AI framework and any foundation model.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team of engineers building core platform components for Amazon Bedrock this role you will own the technical direction delivery and operational excellence of services that power agentic AI workloads for AWS customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead mentor and grow a team of 17 software development engineers building distributed systems at scale
- Own the end-to-end delivery of AgentCore platform services from design through production operations
- Partner with Principal Engineers and peer SDMs to define technical strategy and architecture for agentic AI infrastructure
- Drive operational excellence including on-call incident response and continuous improvement of service availability
- Collaborate with product management to translate customer needs into engineering roadmaps
- Hire and develop top engineering talent; raise the bar on technical depth and engineering practices
- Make sound technical trade-offs balancing speed of delivery quality and long-term maintainability
- Represent the team in cross-organizational planning and alignment with AWS leadership

A day in the life
As an SDM on this team youll split your time between people leadership technical strategy and delivery. A typical day might include reviewing a design doc and pushing your engineers toward simpler more operationally sound solutions; holding a 1:1 focused on career growth; and partnering with peer managers and principal engineers to shape the next quarters roadmap. Youll stay close enough to the technical details to make sound trade-offs while giving your team the space and clarity they need to do their best work.

Youll also be the connective tissue between your team and the broader organizationtranslating customer needs and leadership priorities into focused engineering plans removing blockers and ensuring operational health. Some days lean more toward hiring and talent development; others toward debugging a customer escalation or aligning cross-team dependencies. What stays constant is that youre building both the systems and the team and you have real ownership over how both evolve.

About the team
We are part of the Agentic AI Foundation organization within AWS building Amazon Bedrock AgentCorethe platform that enables developers to deploy and operate AI agents at scale. Our services provide the foundational infrastructureserverless runtime session management memory observability identity and gatewaythat customers rely on to run agentic workloads in production.

Specifically this team owns AgentCores Tools services including Code Interpreter and Browserthe sandboxed execution environments that give AI agents the ability to write and run code and interact with the web on behalf of users. These are critical capabilities that unlock a new class of agentic workflows and were building them from the ground up. We work with any AI framework and any foundation model and our goal is to make it as easy to operate an AI agent as it is to run a Lambda function.

This is a team thats building something new in a space thats evolving fast. We operate with startup-level urgency inside AWS shipping quickly while maintaining the operational bar our customers expect. Youll work alongside strong engineers and technical leaders who care deeply about what they do and youll have the autonomy to shape both the product and the engineering culture as we scale.

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- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java C# or C experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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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 Bellevue - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually