Senior Software Development Engineer, Agentic WorkSpaces at Amazon
Seattle, WA
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Jul 10, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior software engineering role focused on building the next generation of Amazon WorkSpaces, specifically a platform designed for human-AI agent collaboration at enterprise scale. Day-to-day work spans fleet infrastructure, OS-level concerns, data plane, health monitoring, and the authorization and governance frameworks that make autonomous agent actions safe. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable leading technical design across distributed teams and partnering with multiple AWS service organizations.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 290 people in the Seattle, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 220–380
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting is notably light on concrete named technologies in its requirements sections. The Basic Qualifications gate only on years of software development experience, design/architecture experience, and tech-lead/mentorship experience — no specific languages, frameworks, or platforms are named as hard requirements.
The Preferred Qualifications add full SDLC experience and a Bachelor's degree in CS 'or equivalent' — neither is a hard gate, and the degree is explicitly listed as preferred, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Technologies such as AWS, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, EC2, Windows, and Linux appear only in the role narrative/context sections describing the team's product area, not in any requirements block; they are captured as preferred/contextual skills.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Location is not explicitly stated; Seattle, WA (Amazon HQ) is inferred as the most likely primary location for an AWS team role, but candidates should verify.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development, system design.
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