Senior Software Engineer Identity & Governance for AI Agents

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior SDE to own the identity architecture at the foundation of our Agentic WorkSpaces system. You will establish and propagate agent identities across desktop sessions and service boundaries, enabling trusted governance and auditable enforcement.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with partner teams, and drive architectural decisions that influence enterprise-wide identity and authorization models in a fast-moving, high-visibility environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end identity architecture for agent governance: how agent identity is established, propagated, and preserved across desktop sessions, protocol boundaries, and downstream services
• Design attribution and audit systems that distinguish agent actions from human actions within the same session, at the infrastructure level where agents cannot tamper with the record
• Own policy enforcement architecture, including authorization models that evaluate agent actions before they execute
• Evaluate build-vs-leverage decisions across identity and authorization primitives, including assessments of existing internal and external components for reuse
• Drive technical consensus with partner teams whose identity and permission models predate autonomous agents
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and design reviews
• Communicate architectural decisions and tradeoffs to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System design/architecture

Mentorship / Tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior SDE to own the identity architecture at the foundation of our Agentic WorkSpaces system. You will establish and propagate agent identities across desktop sessions and service boundaries, enabling trusted governance and auditable enforcement.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with partner teams, and drive architectural decisions that influence enterprise-wide identity and authorization models in a fast-moving, high-visibility environment.