AI-Native Systems Engineer II

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring an SDE-II to build AI-native systems for Aza, its internal AI assistant, serving 1.5M+ employees. You will design and ship agentic components, orchestration, and sub-agents on Strands SDK with ECS Fargate, contributing to real-time APIs and infrastructure-as-code.

You'll work on greenfield Gen AI features like inline workflows, voice-enabled agents, and RAG pipelines, balancing correctness with high-scale reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design/architecture experience for new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one major programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic systems: orchestration, skills, sub-agents, MCP tools, evaluation frameworks
• Ship features end-to-end from design through production deployment
• Work across the stack: LLM integration, distributed systems, real-time APIs, infrastructure-as-code
• Collaborate with Sr. PE, PEs and Sr. engineers on architecture decisions that shape the platform's future

Skills

Software development

Design patterns

Distributed systems

LLM integration

Architectural thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Strands SDK

ECS Fargate

IaC

Job description

Amazon is hiring an SDE-II to build AI-native systems for Aza, its internal AI assistant, serving 1.5M+ employees. You will design and ship agentic components, orchestration, and sub-agents on Strands SDK with ECS Fargate, contributing to real-time APIs and infrastructure-as-code.

You'll work on greenfield Gen AI features like inline workflows, voice-enabled agents, and RAG pipelines, balancing correctness with high-scale reliability.