Software Development Engineer - AgentCore, AWS Agentic AI

Software Development EngineerAmazon Bedrock AgentCore is building the foundational services developers use to create, deploy, and operate production-ready AI agents at scale. AgentCore Harness, launched at AWS Summit New York in June 2026, provides a managed agent loop that enables customers to define an agent through configuration rather than build and operate orchestration infrastructure themselves.Customers specify their model, instructions, tools, skills, memory, and execution limits. AgentCore Harness manages the agent loop, secure execution environment, session isolation, identity, networking, observability, and deployment lifecycle. This allows developers to move quickly from an idea to a production agent while retaining the flexibility to integrate custom tools, models, and environments.As a Software Development Engineer, you will design, implement, test, deploy, and operate core components across the Harness control plane and data plane. You will solve challenging distributed systems problems involving agent execution, session state, tool orchestration, security, scalability, reliability, and low-latency streaming. You will own features throughout their lifecycle, contribute to technical designs, and deliver high-quality solutions for customers.Harness sits at the intersection of AgentCore Runtime, Memory, Gateway, Identity, Observability, Browser, Code Interpreter, and Evaluations. You will collaborate with engineers across these services to integrate capabilities, improve cross-service APIs, and reduce friction throughout the agent development lifecycle.A central part of this role is making sophisticated agent capabilities dramatically easier to use. You will work backward from customer needs to turn complex infrastructure and orchestration tasks into intuitive configuration, sensible defaults, reusable templates, and guided workflows. Your work will help customers move from an idea to a secure, observable, production-ready agent in minutes while preserving the flexibility advanced builders need for customization.You will help develop capabilities that make agent development faster and more accessible. This may include simplifying how customers connect tools and memory, building richer agent templates and skills, automating permissions and resource wiring, shortening the build-test-deploy loop, and creating safer ways to evaluate and release changes.This is an opportunity to join a newly launched service at an early stage, contribute to its architecture and customer experience, and deliver capabilities with broad industry impact. Machine learning experience is helpful but not required. We are looking for strong engineers with distributed systems experience, sound technical judgment, a commitment to operational excellence, and the ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment.Basic Qualifications- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field- Experience programming with at least one software programming languagePreferred Qualifications- 3+ 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