Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Transform
Company websiteaws.org (AWS, opens in new tab)
Base salary $168,100 to $227,400
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Boston, MA
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- LocationBoston, MA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (4 h ago) · observed since
About this job
AWS Transform is building the next generation of Agentic AI services that autonomously migrate the world's largest enterprises to the cloud. With approximately 7/8 of all enterprise workloads still running on-premises, we are at the center of one of AWS's most significant growth opportunities. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who is excited to build at the frontier of AI — an engineer who wants to design and ship the autonomous agents that reason about complex infrastructure, make intelligent decisions, and execute large-scale migrations with minimal human intervention. This is a rare opportunity to do hands-on engineering on an AI-native platform as it takes shape.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and own major components of our Agentic AI migration platform, where autonomous agents discover, plan, and execute data center migrations.
- Implement multi-agent capabilities that leverage foundation models, chain-of-thought reasoning, and tool-use patterns to solve concrete migration challenges.
- Contribute to AI-powered network transformation features, using generative models to analyze, replicate, and optimize enterprise network topologies.
- Collaborate closely with engineers and product partners within your team, contributing to design reviews and helping maintain architectural coherence across our agent frameworks.
- Improve the autonomy and accuracy of agentic orchestration for migration of servers, storage, networks, and applications through iterative development, testing, and measurement.
- Raise the bar on engineering quality through code reviews, operational excellence, and AI-native development practices; mentor junior engineers and interns, and contribute to a culture of rapid experimentation, spec-driven engineering, and high-velocity releases on Brownfield projects.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques
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USA, MA, Boston - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
Source: AWS · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($168,100) is above 66% of the 415 Software Engineering roles in Massachusetts listed on this site; 21 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $150,000; the middle half runs from $131,961 to $172,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingSr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Transform$168,100 to $227,400
Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance$168,100 to $227,400
Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services$168,100 to $227,400
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Java Runtime$168,100 to $227,400
Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Commerce Platform$168,100 to $227,400
Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Trainium AI Infra$168,100 to $227,400
Software Development Engineer, AWS Payments & Fraud Prevention$168,100 to $227,400
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Transform (this listing) | $168,100 - $227,400 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance | $168,100 - $227,400 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services | $168,100 - $227,400 |
| Software Development Engineer, Amazon Java Runtime | $168,100 - $227,400 |
| Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Commerce Platform | $168,100 - $227,400 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Trainium AI Infra | $168,100 - $227,400 |
| Software Development Engineer, AWS Payments & Fraud Prevention | $168,100 - $227,400 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-28
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Location as the employer wrote it: US, MA, Boston
USA, MA, Boston - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
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