Software Development Manager, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team of engineers building core platform components for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. In this role, you will own the technical direction, delivery, and operational excellence of services that power agentic AI workloads for AWS customers worldwide., Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 17+ software development engineers building distributed systems at scale

• Own the end-to-end delivery of AgentCore platform services, from design through production operations
• Partner with Principal Engineers and peer SDMs to define technical strategy and architecture for agentic AI infrastructure
• Drive operational excellence including on-call, incident response, and continuous improvement of service availability
• Collaborate with product management to translate customer needs into engineering roadmaps
• Hire and develop top engineering talent; raise the bar on technical depth and engineering practices
• Make sound technical trade-offs balancing speed of delivery, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Represent the team in cross-organizational planning and alignment with AWS leadership

A day in the life As an SDM on this team, you’ll split your time between people leadership, technical strategy, and delivery. A typical day might include reviewing a design doc and pushing your engineers toward simpler, more operationally sound solutions; holding a 1:1 focused on career growth; and partnering with peer managers and principal engineers to shape the next quarter’s roadmap. You’ll stay close enough to the technical details to make sound trade-offs, while giving your team the space and clarity they need to do their best work.

You’ll also be the connective tissue between your team and the broader organization-translating customer needs and leadership priorities into focused engineering plans, removing blockers, and ensuring operational health. Some days lean more toward hiring and talent development; others toward debugging a customer escalation or aligning cross-team dependencies. What stays constant is that you’re building both the systems and the team, and you have real ownership over how both evolve.

About the team We are part of the Agentic AI Foundation organization within AWS, building Amazon Bedrock AgentCore-the platform that enables developers to deploy and operate AI agents at scale. Our services provide the foundational infrastructure-serverless runtime, session management, memory, observability, identity, and gateway-that customers rely on to run agentic workloads in production.

Specifically, this team owns AgentCore’s Tools services, including Code Interpreter and Browser-the sandboxed execution environments that give AI agents the ability to write and run code, and interact with the web on behalf of users. These are critical capabilities that unlock a new class of agentic workflows, and we’re building them from the ground up. We work with any AI framework and any foundation model, and our goal is to make it as easy to operate an AI agent as it is to run a Lambda function.

This is a team that’s building something new in a space that’s evolving fast. We operate with startup-level urgency inside AWS, shipping quickly while maintaining the operational bar our customers expect. You’ll work alongside strong engineers and technical leaders who care deeply about what they do, and you’ll have the autonomy to shape both the product and the engineering culture as we scale.

3+ years of engineering team management experience

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve., The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is building the infrastructure and platform services that enable developers to build, deploy, and operate AI agents at scale. Our team delivers modular, enterprise-grade services-including serverless agent runtime, session management, memory, observability, gateway, and identity-that work with any AI framework and any foundation model.