Amazon · 15 hours ago
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Kiro
San Francisco, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$193K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to advance the state of the art in open source distributed programming and AI agents. The role involves developing novel features for the Hydro framework, collaborating with customers and the open source community, and addressing challenges in compiler design and distributed systems engineering.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
You'll work on the open source Hydro framework and its integration with Amazon's Kiro family of coding agents
Working directly with customers running some of the world's biggest distributed systems, you'll uncover real-world development challenges and translate them into product capabilities—staying true to Amazon's customer-obsessed approach
You'll build and deploy cutting-edge software engineering technology, advancing the safety, reliability and simplicity of building the cloud-scale software our customers demand
Your responsibilities span the full lifecycle: from compiler technologies to agent training and steering to scalable deployment
You'll balance innovation with operational excellence, making technical choices that enable Hydro open source and Kiro agents to work smoothly for a wide class of developers while meeting AWS's standards for scale and security
Qualification
Required
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3+ years working on concurrent, parallel or distributed systems OR 3+ years working on compilers (LLVM, GraalVM, etc.) or modern build tools (Nix, Bazel, etc.)
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
Fluency in Rust
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience leveraging AI based development tools to build production software
Benefits
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
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10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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VP & CTO
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