Senior AWS AI Platform Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the AWS Agentic AI team in Bellevue, WA. You will design core infrastructure, optimize latency, and collaborate with Lambda and Bedrock teams to scale agent runtimes and security integrations.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, leading architecture decisions, and delivering high-impact distributed systems in a fast-moving environment. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are offered.

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.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core infrastructure components including control plane APIs, data plane execution environments, and deployment orchestration systems
• 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 (LangChain, LangGraph, Strands) to integrate and optimize agent runtime capabilities
• Contribute to technical strategy and architecture decisions for session management, identity/permissions, cross-account access, and security integrations
• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and operational best practices

Skills

Software development experience

Programming languages

Design/Architecture leadership

Mentor/Tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the AWS Agentic AI team in Bellevue, WA. You will design core infrastructure, optimize latency, and collaborate with Lambda and Bedrock teams to scale agent runtimes and security integrations.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, leading architecture decisions, and delivering high-impact distributed systems in a fast-moving environment. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are offered.