Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Kiro
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jun 19, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three specified experience areas; no duration specified for mentoring or engineering leadership.
About the job
Build and operate Kiro, an autonomous AI developer tool, shaping its architecture and features to help developers complete software tasks.
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.
- Develop and operate production systems, focusing on responsiveness, cross-platform behavior, reliability, performance, scale, and security.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.
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
Kiro, 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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