Amazon

Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Coding Agents, Kiro

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Base Salary

$200k - $271k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve low-latency, highly reliable systems that orchestrate multi-step agentic workflows across multiple LLM models.
  • Drive integration strategy across model providers and internal science teams as the model landscape evolves.
  • Define architectures and design patterns for multi-agent coordination, agent swarms, and tiered agent systems.
  • Build observability and visibility systems that make agent behavior observable, debuggable, and controllable at scale.
  • Architect context-sharing solutions for agent swarms and multi-agent workflows.
  • Own performance and scalability for systems whose latency affects developer productivity.
  • Set technical direction for a rapidly evolving architecture and influence agentic AI system design across Amazon.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership for ambiguous, open-ended engineering problems and mentor or lead engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 12+ 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 engineering team lead.
  • Preferred: 12+ years across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Preferred: Experience with AI/ML agent systems, multi-agent coordination, or workflow orchestration patterns.
  • Preferred: Experience building observability, debugging, or monitoring systems for complex distributed workflows.
  • Preferred: Experience solving difficult problems involving context management, state coordination, optimization, network communication, or autonomous system control.
  • Preferred: Experience scaling platforms from individual users to team and enterprise deployments.
  • Preferred: Contributions to open-source agent frameworks, orchestration tools, or developer platforms.
  • Preferred: Rust proficiency or experience with database internals, query engines, or storage system design.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life plan options.
  • Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units in addition to base salary.
  • The position is based in Seattle, Washington.

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