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Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

Amazon· AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$184.9k - $250.2kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior software development role building AI-powered enterprise migration products. Own architecture and delivery of production systems for AWS enterprise migrations and modernization at scale. Hands-on builder with leadership expectations in a product engineering org.

Responsibilities

  • Own team-level architecture — design systems that are simple, extensible, and operationally sound
  • Influence design and technical decisions beyond your immediate team, contributing to org-wide architectural direction and engineering standards
  • Lead projects spanning multiple engineers; make sound technical decisions and drive execution from design through production deployment
  • Design and build agentic AI components — whether that's agent logic, orchestration workflows, evaluation pipelines, or integration APIs
  • Write production code daily — you should spend the majority of your time building, not meeting
  • Set engineering standards on your team: code quality, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response
  • Solve complex distributed systems problems where trade-offs between latency, consistency, extensibility, and cost aren't obvious
  • Proactively identify and resolve technical debt; simplify systems rather than layering complexity
  • Mentor and grow engineers on your team; help junior and mid-level engineers level up through code reviews, design guidance, and career coaching
  • Communicate technical designs clearly in writing — design docs, RFCs, and architecture decision records
  • Drive operational excellence: meaningful alarms, runbooks, dashboards, and a culture of learning from incidents
  • Travel ~5% to customer sites and partner team locations to understand how your tools perform in the field

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
  • Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Skills

Required:Architectural leadershipMentorship & team leadershipAgentic AI / multi-agent systemsDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flex spending accounts and mental health support resources
  • Discretionary sign-on payments and RSUs as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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