Software Development Manager, AgentCore Memory

Socket.dev; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 203,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the AgentCore Memory team, building globally distributed, high-throughput services with secure, scalable memory at scale. You will hire, coach, and grow engineers, drive the technical roadmap, and partner with product, science, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful features.

You will guide multiple AWS-region operations, ensure reliability and security, and foster an inclusive high-performance culture across the organization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++.
• 1+ years of service-oriented architecture experience.
• 1+ years of distributed programming experience.
• 5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software development engineers, owning hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Own the delivery of a globally distributed, high-throughput service spanning control plane, data plane, and real-time ingestion pipelines, from design through deployment and operations.
• Partner with product managers, applied scientists, and cross‑functional engineering teams to define the roadmap and translate customer needs into technical plans and prioritized deliverables.
• Drive operational excellence across multiple AWS regions, holding the team accountable for availability, latency, security, and leading on‑call and incident response practices.
• Set and uphold a high bar for engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing strategy, and sound architectural decisions.
• Manage dependencies and communicate status, risks, and trade‑offs to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture where engineers do their best work.

Skills

engineering team management

software engineering leadership

distributed systems experience

technical leadership

leadership and project management

Java

C++

C#

Education

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

Tools

Java

C++

C#

Job description

Want to build the memory layer that gives AI agents the ability to learn, remember, and get smarter over time? Come lead engineers on the team building AgentCore Memory, the managed service that lets developers give their AI agents persistent, secure, and intelligent long-term and short-term memory at scale.

AgentCore Memory is at the heart of the agentic AI revolution. Every meaningful agent experience that remembers customer preferences, recalls past conversations, and improves with every interaction, depends on a memory system that is fast, durable, and secure. As a Software Development Manager for the team, you will own a mission-critical service that thousands of builders rely on to bring stateful, context-aware AI agents to life.

In this role, you will lead and grow a team of talented engineers building globally distributed, high-throughput services that span a control plane, a data plane, and real-time ingestion pipelines. You will help drive the technical direction and roadmap for a system that blends large-scale distributed systems with cutting‑edge generative AI, using Amazon Bedrock to power memory extraction and consolidation. You will be accountable for operational excellence across multiple AWS regions, meeting demanding availability, latency, and security bars for a service customers depend on every day. Along the way, you will partner closely with product, science, and cross‑functional engineering teams to define what agent memory should be, while coaching and developing engineers, hiring top talent, and cultivating an inclusive, high‑performing team culture.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software development engineers, owning hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Own the delivery of a globally distributed, high-throughput service spanning control plane, data plane, and real-time ingestion pipelines, from design through deployment and operations.
• Partner with product managers, applied scientists, and cross‑functional engineering teams to define the roadmap and translate customer needs into technical plans and prioritized deliverables.
• Drive operational excellence across multiple AWS regions, holding the team accountable for availability, latency, security, and leading on‑call and incident response practices.
• Set and uphold a high bar for engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing strategy, and sound architectural decisions.
• Manage dependencies and communicate status, risks, and trade‑offs to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture where engineers do their best work.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service‑oriented architecture experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
• 5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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