Software Development Engineer II, AWS SMGS- Galaxi

Build the systems that make AI agents secure governed and trustworthy at scale.

The AWS SMGS-Galaxi team builds intelligent AI-powered services that help thousands of internal users discover secure and govern information assets across AWS. Our platform serves as the central nervous system for data intelligence connecting teams with the assets they need while ensuring security compliance and operational efficiency at enterprise scale.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who wants to solve hard problems at the intersection of data security access governance and agentic automation. You will design and deliver scalable production-grade services that give AI agents the ability to discover access and act on sensitive data while enforcing fine-grained security and compliance at every layer. You will work across the full stack: backend distributed systems event-driven architectures intelligent MCP interfaces and frontend micro-applications. Your work will directly impact thousands of users who rely on our platform for critical business decisions daily. You will own services end-to-end from architecture through deployment and operational excellence in a fast-paced high-ownership environment where security is not an afterthought but the core product.


Key job responsibilities
Build secure scalable distributed systems on AWS (Lambda Neptune DynamoDB API Gateway S3 Step Functions) via CDK
Develop multi-agent AI systems using Bedrock Agents MCP knowledge graphs vector embeddings and RAG
Implement zero-trust access control IAM role chaining ABAC tenant isolation and least-privilege agent-to-service auth
Build MCP servers (TypeScript/Python) with authorization boundaries audit logging and data classification enforcement
Architect observability for AI agents invocation auditing access pattern analysis and lineage tracking
Drive operational excellence through threat modeling security scanning monitoring and incident response
Collaborate across teams on system design code reviews and technical strategy

A day in the life
Every day brings a different challenge. You might be designing an API in the morning debugging a distributed system in the afternoon and reviewing a teammates design by end of day.
Youll partner with engineers across AWS to solve complex ambiguous problems spanning customer-facing features system performance and cross-team integrations. We look for curious pragmatic builders with a bias for action.
Youll have real ownership from day one and the environment to grow your technical depth influence and leadership over time.

About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform serving millions of customers across virtually every industry. Within AWS the Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) organization drives growth by helping customers of all sizes adopt and succeed with AWS services.

The Galaxi Team part of SMGS builds and operates the Galaxi portal () a centralized hub that enables 1500 users across AWS to discover access and govern 500 data assets. The team owns six core services: the Galaxi Portal (unified UI via micro-frontend architecture) Data Catalog (search and discovery across Glue Redshift S3 QuickSight and streaming assets) Access Manager (fine-grained subscription and security controls) Group Service RLS Service and MetricsLab (standardized metric definitions and governance). Together these services form the backbone of data intelligence for AWS sales and business teams ensuring the right people have secure governed access to the right data at the right time.

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- 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 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
- Experience developing deploying and managing AI products at scale

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually