Senior SDE - AgentCore Developer Experience & Tools

Amazon

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 185,000 - 250,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr Software Development Engineer to shape the technical vision for AgentCore at AWS. You will drive architecture across developer tooling, SDKs, CLI, and deployment workflows, translating customer needs into scalable designs and reliable services.

You will collaborate with principal engineers, product managers, and teams to define cross-service APIs, ensure operational excellence, and mentor engineers while delivering high-impact capabilities for production-ready AI agents.

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.

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction and architecture for the AgentCore developer experience across APIs, SDKs, CLI, console, infrastructure as code, and local development workflows.
Design cohesive abstractions, configuration models, and workflows that bring AgentCore services together into a consistent end-to-end experience.
Lead the design and delivery of new developer-facing services and capabilities, from early concepts through production launch and operation.
Simplify how developers connect models, tools, MCP servers, memory, identity, and custom environments using intuitive defaults, templates, and automation.
Shorten the build-test-evaluate-deploy loop while preserving the control and extensibility advanced builders need.
Design lifecycle capabilities such as versioning, deployment, rollback, evaluations, optimization, diagnostics, and operational visibility.
Build highly available control-plane and data-plane components that support secure, scalable, and cost-efficient developer experiences.
Work directly with customers to identify friction, represent their needs in technical and product decisions, and accelerate their path to production.
Partner with principal engineers, product managers, and AgentCore service teams to shape cross-service APIs, architecture, and product strategy.
Raise the engineering bar through implementation, design and code reviews, operational readiness, and mentoring.