Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Kiro
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the first three basic qualifications; the preferred full software development life cycle experience also asks for 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate Kiro, an autonomous developer tool, shaping its architecture and features to improve software development workflows and meet customer needs.
What you'll do
- Define Kiro’s technical direction and architecture, including how the agent manages sessions, state, and context.
- Work with customers to identify development challenges and translate them into product capabilities; build and operate production systems.
- Develop responsive, ergonomic, cross-platform features while ensuring reliability, performance, scale, and security.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
CI/CD
AI focus
Build an autonomous developer agent that handles development tasks, maintains context across interactions, and learns from its work.
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