Drimva

Amazon

Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

$185K–$250K

New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 15, 2026

Experience
5+ years in software development, programming, and system design or architecture; preferred: 5+ years in the full software development life cycle.
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

About the job

Build and operate production agentic AI products that coordinate enterprise cloud migrations, from architecture and orchestration to AWS service integration.

What you'll do

  • Lead architecture and multi-engineer projects from design through production deployment; influence engineering standards and technical direction.
  • Build agentic AI components, orchestration workflows, evaluation pipelines, and integration APIs; write production code.
  • Mentor engineers and own operational excellence, including testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 5+ years programming in at least one 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.
  • Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and model execution optimization; bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
  • Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.

Pay

184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Python, AWS CDK, React, Bedrock, Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway

AI focus

Build production-scale agentic AI systems for enterprise cloud migrations, including agents, orchestration, evaluation, LLM integrations, and tool-use patterns.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)