20 days ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex customer engagements, with 30–50% travel.
- Design and build production AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
- Make architecture decisions across multiple services and organizational boundaries and align solutions with customer technology strategies.
- Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, observability standards, incident response playbooks, and production-readiness criteria.
- Create reusable architectures, engineering patterns, platforms, and accelerators that improve the effectiveness of the FDE practice.
- Mentor junior FDEs, coach engineers on system design and customer engagement, and contribute to interviewing and hiring.
- Identify opportunities to expand enterprise AI adoption and deliver measurable customer business outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Professional, non-internship software development experience and software development within the last three years.
- Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Experience leading the architecture and design of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; AI agent development is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, AWS Services experience, enterprise-scale AI/ML application experience, and full software development lifecycle experience.
- Preferred experience includes React, TypeScript, Python, or Go; customer-facing technical project leadership; complex multi-component systems; and external stakeholder relationships.
- Preferred candidates have 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment and may have a founder, engineering lead, or startup-builder background.
Benefits
- AWS promotes work-life harmony, flexible working culture, inclusion programs, mentorship, knowledge sharing, and career-advancement resources.
- The role requires 30–50% travel.
- Amazon provides workplace accommodations and adjustments during the interview and hiring process when needed.
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.