Software Development Engineer, Agentic Workspaces - Watchtower

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate Watchtower services that secure and maintain WorkSpaces for humans and AI agents.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design to deployment, with a high bar for availability, latency, and security, collaborating across teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions. This role emphasizes customer obsession, deep technical skills, and solving hard problems in OS, identity, AI,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 2+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.
• 2+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 2+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Responsibilities

• Dive deep into complex technical problems and drive incremental system optimizations.
• Raise the bar for operational excellence and development practices.

Skills

C#, C++, Java, Perl

Software development experience

Software architecture

OO design

Programming experience

SDLC

Complex systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Description

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Amazon WorkSpaces has protected and empowered enterprise work for over a decade, and we are now reimagining what a workspace is. We are building Agentic WorkSpaces: a platform where the workspace itself is an active partner in how you work, not just infrastructure that delivers applications. Today more than a million users rely on WorkSpaces daily; tomorrow those WorkSpaces will host AI agents alongside humans, agents that code, troubleshoot, analyze, and act on behalf of their users, governed by the same identity and security policies as the people they serve. We compete with Microsoft, Citrix, and Omnissa, and we intend to leapfrog them by building the workspace that was designed for the agentic era, not retrofitted for it.

Agentic WorkSpaces' Watchtower team is the layer that makes this possible from the inside of every WorkSpace: telemetry, health, secure communications both inbound and outbound, Agentic AI platforms for qualification of operating systems, instances, and applications. Our mission is to provide robust monitoring, automation, and operational capabilities that ensure the reliability and performance of WorkSpaces Instances.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the services that secure and maintain WorkSpaces for humans and, increasingly, for the AI agents that work beside them, across every supported OS and identity provider. You will own end‑to‑end delivery of features and systems within Watchtower - from design through deployment and operations - holding a high bar for availability, latency, and security.

You are customer‑obsessed, technically deep, and energized by solving hard problems. You think big about what the workspace of the future looks like - a unified agent shipping to two platforms from one codebase, an identity model that treats humans and agents as first‑class citizens, and autonomous troubleshooting that resolves issues before users notice - and then you build the systems to get there. You thrive in ambiguity, make sound trade‑off decisions with incomplete information, and hold yourself accountable for results that matter. You want to solve challenging problems in operating systems, identity, AI, and desktop platform engineering at a scale that impacts more than a million users daily.

Key job responsibilities

In our team, you will indulge your love of diving deep into complex technical problems, driving incremental system optimizations and raising the bar for operational excellence and development practices. We will look to you to help enhance the skills and expertise of those around you.

About The Team

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Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 2+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 2+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 2+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

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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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.