Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AWS Insights and Optimizations
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the first three basic qualifications; experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team. Preferred: 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Own and evolve the AWS Insights and Optimizations platform and public APIs, helping customers and agents understand and optimize cloud and AI infrastructure costs.
What you'll do
- Own public APIs and cross-account and organization-wide access for enrollment, recommendations, data exports, and optimization preferences.
- Design agent-friendly access and operations, and extend the platform to AI and accelerated-compute spending.
- Improve recommendation explainability and platform reliability, monitoring, testing, deployment, and operational automation; mentor engineers and collaborate on product direction.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming 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 leading an engineering team.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating public customer-facing APIs, multi-tenant systems, agent-facing or LLM-integrated systems, or large-scale data processing, indexing, or search systems.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
MCP
AI focus
Build agent-first optimization experiences with MCP and agent-friendly APIs, bulk and multi-step operations, machine-to-machine authentication, and explainable recommendations. Extend optimization to AI and accelerated-compute workloads; use agents in development and operations.
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