18 days ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer engagements.
- Design and build production-scale AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision-intelligence platforms.
- Make architecture decisions across multiple services and organizational boundaries while aligning with customers’ long-term technology strategies.
- Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, observability standards, incident-response playbooks, and production-readiness criteria for AI systems.
- Create reusable engineering patterns, accelerators, and platforms that improve delivery across the FDE practice.
- Mentor junior FDEs, coach engineers on system design and customer engagement, and contribute to interviewing and hiring.
- Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer organizations and feed learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.
Requirements
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader.
- Professional, non-internship software development experience and software development experience within the last three years.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Experience leading architecture and design for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; AI agent development experience is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools, evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent, AWS Services experience, enterprise-scale AI/ML application delivery, complex customer production-system delivery, full software development lifecycle experience, and customer-facing technical leadership.
- Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go, plus at least three years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Benefits
- Work-life harmony and workplace flexibility.
- Employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups and inclusion events.
- Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- Requires 30–50% travel.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.