Senior AI Systems Engineer — Secure, Scalable Cloud

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SMGS-Galaxi team seeks a Software Development Engineer II to build secure, scalable AI-powered services for data governance at enterprise scale. You will contribute to distributed systems and multi-agent AI components, focusing on security, compliance, and ownership from day one.

You will collaborate across teams on design, code reviews, and architecture, while advancing threat modeling, monitoring, and incident response to keep systems reliable and auditable.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• 1+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of object‑oriented design experience.
• Experience developing, deploying, and managing AI products at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build secure, scalable distributed systems on AWS (Lambda, Neptune, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, Step Functions) via CDK.
• Develop multi‑agent AI systems using Bedrock Agents, MCP, knowledge graphs, vector embeddings, and RAG.
• Implement zero‑trust access control—IAM role chaining, ABAC, tenant isolation, and least‑privilege agent‑to‑service auth.
• Build MCP servers (TypeScript/Python) with authorization boundaries, audit logging, and data classification enforcement.
• Architect observability for AI agents—invocation auditing, access pattern analysis, and lineage tracking.
• Drive operational excellence through threat modeling, security scanning, monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaborate across teams on system design, code reviews, and technical strategy.

Skills

Non-internship software dev experience

Software design/architecture

Distributed systems design

Object-oriented design

AI at scale experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SMGS-Galaxi team seeks a Software Development Engineer II to build secure, scalable AI-powered services for data governance at enterprise scale. You will contribute to distributed systems and multi-agent AI components, focusing on security, compliance, and ownership from day one.

You will collaborate across teams on design, code reviews, and architecture, while advancing threat modeling, monitoring, and incident response to keep systems reliable and auditable.