Key job responsibilities
Design technology solutions and architectures that solve complex business and technical problems, decomposing hard challenges into components that can be delivered incrementally by you and your teammates.
Define and implement engineering best practices and operational-excellence standards, leading architecture, design, and operational readiness reviews plus post-incident analyses.
Own the reliability standard for Weekly Business Review (WBR) data: alerting, escalation, freshness validation, and pre-review availability SLAs.
Build and operate deployment pipelines for skills, agents, and services, including version sets, automated release and pickup, and rollback.
Harden and operate MCP servers and agentic surfaces: monitoring, runbooks, on-call readiness, and incident response.
Design and implement fine-grained authorization and least-privilege models for governed data access, moving beyond authentication-only patterns.
Build audit trails, permission boundaries, and secure-by-default patterns for agentic data access, including row/column-level controls for sensitive and government (ALG) data sharing.
Identify and drive automation that reduces operational burden, lowers cost, and improves resiliency.
Partner on Amazon Security Reviews and represent ASTRA's security posture to stakeholders.
Mentor engineers and produce exemplary artifacts: code, documentation, runbooks, and dashboards.
About the team
ASTRA builds the AI-powered tools, agentic interfaces, and data discovery surfaces that put trusted, governed data into the hands of every business operator across Amazon Leo. We own the "last mile" between data infrastructure, science models, and the business — and we are the vehicle extending GenAI across all of Leo Business.
Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
Experience with Linux/Unix
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Experience with distributed systems at scale
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 defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Arlington - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually
