Design control-plane workflows and contracts that turn administrator intent into policy artifacts for downstream enforcement services across regions, setting the bar for consistency, auditability, and safe rollout across environments.
Lead the technical strategy for telemetry and analytics pipelines that show how AI is used across an organization, including usage dashboards, audit trails, compliance reporting, SIEM integration, and anomaly detection at enterprise scale.
Drive alignment with authorization, identity, and guardrails teams on shared interfaces and end-to-end governance design, write and review design documents, and make clear trade-offs between opportunity, resources, and long-term sustainability.
Mentor and grow engineers on the team, lead design and operational reviews, drive operational excellence, and actively contribute to hiring.
A day in the life
You might start the morning reviewing a design document for a new policy-inheritance model, then lead a cross-team architecture session with the identity and guardrails teams to align on shared contracts. After lunch you write Java code for a control-plane workflow that orchestrates safe policy rollouts across regions. Later you pair with a teammate to investigate an anomaly in the compliance-reporting pipeline, and close out the day by giving design feedback to a junior engineer working on the admin observability dashboard.
About the team
Amazon Quick is a generative AI-powered assistant that helps employees be more productive by answering questions, generating content, providing summaries, and completing tasks, all securely grounded in enterprise data. Quick serves some of the world's largest enterprises, with deployments spanning hundreds of thousands of users. The Quick Governance team builds the unified admin controls, policy platform, and observability layer that let these customers adopt AI safely, responsibly, and in line with regulations. If you want to define how enterprises govern AI at scale, this is the team for you.
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
