About the job
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. We're looking for engineers who want to shape this transformation. You'll work alongside exceptional talent solving novel problems at the intersection of AI and software engineering.
Responsibilities
orchestrating AI workflows across dozens of models; building context systems that make every interaction smarter than the last; scaling it all to meet AWS's exacting standards for reliability and security; shipping features that directly improve how developers work; launching new models in hours; building intelligent routing; designing the context layer that makes Kiro genuinely understand your project; leading by owning a critical system; defining technical direction for a new capability; shaping how the team operates; working across distributed systems, real-time streaming, multi-model orchestration, and AI infrastructure at scale
Qualifications
Minimum
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
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