Senior AI Tools Platform Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operation of frontier AI tooling that empowers Proserve and Frontier AI teams to deliver customer outcomes at scale.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and collaborate across teams to build reusable components, APIs, and automation for delivery workflows. This hands‑on role emphasizes performance, reliability, and security in a fast‑moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 3+ years of experience designing and building agentic orchestration or workflow‑orchestration systems (multi‑step agent workflows, tool/service orchestration, or state management across distributed services)

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design, implementation, and operational health of platform capability, or delivery workflow
• Build production‑grade software that helps teams understand customer context, develop solutions, coordinate delivery, and measure customer outcomes
• Partner with delivery teams to turn recurring customer needs into reusable software components, APIs, templates, and automation
• Lead design reviews and make sound tradeoffs across reliability, security, performance, cost, delivery speed, and maintainability
• Build secure integrations with approved AWS services, internal platforms, customer systems, and governed data products
• Establish testing, monitoring, logging, alerting, documentation, and incident‑response mechanisms for owned systems
• Partner with Security Engineering to implement security‑by‑design requirements and remediate identified risks
• Partner with Product & / or Data engineering to define product instrumentation, event schemas, and data contracts
• Mentor engineers, provide high‑quality code reviews, and raise the technical bar for the immediate team and adjacent Forward Deployed Engineering pods
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, and delivery progress to engineering, product, GTM, and customer stakeholders

Skills

Software development

Programming

Mentor / Tech lead

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and operation of frontier AI tooling that empowers Proserve and Frontier AI teams to deliver customer outcomes at scale.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and collaborate across teams to build reusable components, APIs, and automation for delivery workflows. This hands‑on role emphasizes performance, reliability, and security in a fast‑moving environment.