Software Development Manager, AgentCore Memory

Want to build the memory layer that gives AI agents the ability to learn remember and get smarter over time Come lead engineers on the team building AgentCore Memory the managed service that lets developers give their AI agents persistent secure and intelligent long-term and short-term memory at scale.

AgentCore Memory is at the heart of the agentic AI revolution. Every meaningful agent experience that remembers customer preferences recalls past conversations and improves with every interaction depends on a memory system that is fast durable and secure. As a Software Development Manager for the team you will own a mission-critical service that thousands of builders rely on to bring stateful context-aware AI agents to life.

In this role you will lead and grow a team of talented engineers building globally distributed high-throughput services that span a control plane a data plane and real-time ingestion pipelines. You will
help drive the technical direction and roadmap for a system that blends large-scale distributed systems with cutting-edge generative AI using Amazon Bedrock to power memory extraction and consolidation. You will be accountable for operational excellence across multiple AWS regions meeting demanding availability latency and security bars for a service customers depend on every day. Along the way you will partner closely with product science and cross-functional engineering teams to define what agent memory should be while coaching and developing engineers hiring top talent and cultivating an inclusive high-performing team culture.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead coach and grow a team of software development engineers owning hiring performance management and career development.
- Own the delivery of a globally distributed high-throughput service spanning control plane data plane and real-time ingestion pipelines from design through deployment and operations.
- Partner with product managers applied scientists and cross-functional engineering teams to define the roadmap and translate customer needs into technical plans and prioritized deliverables.
- Drive operational excellence across multiple AWS regions holding the team accountable for availability latency security and leading on-call and incident response practices.
- Set and uphold a high bar for engineering quality through design reviews code reviews testing strategy and sound architectural decisions.
- Manage dependencies and communicate status risks and trade-offs to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Foster an inclusive collaborative team culture where engineers do their best work.

- 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
- 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
- 5 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- Bachelors 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

- 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

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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 NJ Jersey City - 203400.00 - 275200.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 203400.00 - 275200.00 USD annually