Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Quick
$168K–$227K
Bellevue, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience areas; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Lead a team of software development engineers building and launching AWS Context, a governed knowledge-graph service that gives AI agents access to organizational context.
What you'll do
- Lead SDEs building customer-facing agentic features and systems designed to process billions of queries.
- Lead the design and architecture of new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling.
- Ship and iterate on the service based on customer feedback.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS Context
AI focus
Build a governed knowledge graph that grounds AI agents in organizational data and supports agentic features.
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