Sr. Software Development Engineer, Bedrock AgentCore Knowledge Bases

Amazon
New York2026-04-20ONSITE

About the job

Interested in high-scale distributed systems and Gen AI? Our team develops Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, a fully managed service for end-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow. Our team's mission is to make it easier for customers to build AI applications with contextual information from their enteprise data to deliver more relevant, accurate, and customized responses. We continuously develop new features to address real-world problems through research and innovation, such as 1/ integrating with Foundation Models (FM), agents, and data sources 2/ improving response quality by improving our existing pipeline and creating new pipelines 3/ introducing support for new content types and modality.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of distributed AI data pipelines and systems, providing system-wide architectural guidance

Balance speed of execution with architectural requirements, identifying one-way door decisions that require the right long-term solution

Drive adoption of engineering best practices and operational excellence across the team

Solve complex technical problems with multiple risks and roadblocks, bringing clarity through simple, well-designed solutions

Mentor and coach multiple engineers, helping develop the next generation of technical talent

Effectively communicate technical designs to both technical and non-technical audiences

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Preferred

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent