Sr. Software Development Engineer, Kiro
About the role
The future of software development is agentic. AWS is building Kiro — a frontier AI coding agent that tackles development tasks end-to-end, retains context across complex workflows, and continuously learns from its work. Kiro is already transforming how developers build and maintain software, and we're just getting started.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside exceptional talent solving novel problems at the intersection of AI and software engineering
- Orchestrating AI workflows across dozens of models
- Building context systems that make every interaction smarter than the last
- Scales the technology to meet AWS's exacting standards for reliability and security
- Ship features that directly improve how developers work — from launching new models in hours, to building intelligent routing, to designing the context layer that makes Kiro genuinely understand your project
- Lead — whether that's owning a critical system, defining technical direction for a new capability, or shaping how the team operates
- Work across distributed systems, real-time streaming, multi-model orchestration, and AI infrastructure at scale
Requirements
- 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Benefits
Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Pay
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
- 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually
Schedule
Not specified