Senior Software Developer, AWS DevOps Agent

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a senior software engineer to lead platform-level capabilities across three teams. You will own memory lifecycle, retrieval strategy, and model-aware routing, guiding architecture decisions with broad impact.

You will mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and stay hands-on with high-leverage code, interfaces, and stability fixes. This role emphasizes evidence-based, scalable system design and collaboration with Product and adjacent AWS teams.

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

• Lead the design and delivery of platform-level capabilities spanning multiple teams.
• Own technical decisions with system-wide consequences around memory lifecycle, retrieval strategy, model-aware routing.
• Drive design reviews across System of Context, Investigation Agent, and Evaluation teams.
• Stay hands-on, drive the highest-leverage code and code reviews.
• Mentor engineers across three teams and partner with Product and AWS groups.

Skills

Software development experience

Programming experience

Design patterns and architecture

Mentor / tech lead experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Source control (Git)

Build and release processes

Testing and operations

Job description

About the team

AWS DevOps Agent is a platform, not a single agent. Its foundation is built by three teams working as one system. System of Context owns Production Intelligence, memory, and the context pipeline. Investigation Agent owns the execution engine and the fast and slow reasoning architecture. Evaluation owns the platform's immune system, the checks and scoring that keep quality honest. We work in a tight loop where context is supplied, tested against reality, and scored for improvement. This role works across all three. We treat context quality as the real differentiator and hold ourselves to a high bar on evidence.

Key job responsibilities

You will lead the design and delivery of platform-level capabilities spanning multiple teams, including event-driven context freshness, concurrent fast and slow investigation, and real-time evaluation checks. You will take on problems where the customer need is understood but the right technical approach is not, owning technical decisions with system-wide consequences around memory lifecycle, retrieval strategy, model-aware routing, and the boundary between what an agent should self-correct versus escalate. You will drive design reviews across System of Context, Investigation Agent, and Evaluation, making sure the three converge on one coherent architecture. You will stay hands-on, personally driving the highest-leverage code and code reviews, including the prototype that sets direction, the interface that defines a team boundary, and the fix that restores operational stability. You will mentor and raise the bar for engineers across the three teams, and partner with Product, Applied Science, and adjacent AWS teams to turn research and strategy into shipped, measurable improvements.

A day in the life

You might start in a design review for how Production Intelligence decides topology is stale, weighing automated reasoning against simpler heuristics. Mid-morning, you pair with an engineer on real-time reasoning checks. After lunch, you review a memory-consolidation design, pushing back on claims not yet backed by evidence. Later, you are deep in code on the interface between investigation agents or the recall-logging hook that tracks memory confidence. You close the day documenting a search-versus-knowledge-graph decision. Other days are more focused, spending a week on one hard implementation or running evaluation experiments.

About the team

AWS DevOps Agent is a platform, not a single agent. Its foundation is built by three teams working as one system. System of Context owns Production Intelligence, memory, and the context pipeline. Investigation Agent owns the execution engine and the fast and slow reasoning architecture. Evaluation owns the platform's immune system, the checks and scoring that keep quality honest. We work in a tight loop where context is supplied, tested against reality, and scored for improvement. This role works across all three. We treat context quality as the real differentiator and hold ourselves to a high bar on evidence.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually