SDE, AWS Bedrock AgentCore — Scalable AI Systems

Amazon Inc.; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring a Software Development Engineer for the AWS Agentic AI Foundations team in Bellevue, WA. You will design and build scalable, fault-tolerant Bedrock AgentCore services and mentor engineers, influencing strategic technical decisions and architecture.

You will work across Lambda Sandbox and other compute platforms, focusing on performance, reliability, and rapid iteration in a startup-like environment within a large company. Strong ML systems experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture (patterns, reliability, scaling) of new/existing systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using languages such as C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core runtime infrastructure components including control plane APIs, data plane execution environments, and deployment orchestration systems.
• Build managed runtime capabilities that reduce Docker complexity and enable rapid iteration for developers (ZIP-based deployments, dependency management, cold start optimization).
• Optimize agent invocation latency, cold start performance, and resource utilization across Lambda Sandbox, Snapstart, and custom compute platforms.
• Develop monitoring, observability, and operational tooling to ensure production reliability and enable rapid incident response.
• Collaborate with AWS Lambda, Bedrock, and open-source framework teams to integrate and optimize agent runtime capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and operational best practices.

Skills

3+ years software development

2+ years design/architecture

1+ years SDE experience

OO design experience

multi-tiered distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring a Software Development Engineer for the AWS Agentic AI Foundations team in Bellevue, WA. You will design and build scalable, fault-tolerant Bedrock AgentCore services and mentor engineers, influencing strategic technical decisions and architecture.

You will work across Lambda Sandbox and other compute platforms, focusing on performance, reliability, and rapid iteration in a startup-like environment within a large company. Strong ML systems experience is a plus.