Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Kiro
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the first three basic qualifications; no years stated for mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Shapes and builds Kiro Autonomous Agent, an AI system that independently handles software development tasks, while ensuring production reliability, scale, and security.
What you'll do
- Define the service’s technical direction and architecture, including how agents learn and maintain context.
- Work with customers to identify development challenges and translate them into product capabilities.
- Develop and operate production systems across the software lifecycle, from compiler technologies and agent training to scalable deployment.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of experience leading 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
CI/CD, compiler technologies
AI focus
Build an autonomous software-development agent that handles development tasks independently, maintains context, learns from its work, and can be trained and steered.
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