Principal Software Engineer, AI Agent Orchestration

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs and equity

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon’s Kiro team seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture of distributed coding agents, shaping multi-agent workflows and AI integration across LLM models. You will craft low-latency, scalable systems and set engineering standards.

You will mentor teams, drive design decisions, and own end-to-end technical direction for complex, high-impact projects within Amazon's GenAI coding assistant ecosystem. This role is based in Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 12+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving the systems that orchestrate multi-step agentic workflows across multiple LLM models with low latency and high reliability
• Driving integration strategy across model providers and internal science teams as the model landscape rapidly evolves
• Defining agent orchestration architecture — designing patterns for multi-agent coordination, agent swarms, and tiered agent architectures
• Building orchestration visibility systems — creating mechanisms that make agent behavior observable, debuggable, and controllable at scale
• Solving context management at scale — architecting solutions for context sharing across agent swarms and multi-agent workflows
• Owning performance and scalability for systems where latency directly impacts developer productivity
• Setting the technical direction for a team that rapidly iterates on its architecture to stay at the frontier
• Serving as the technical anchor for ambiguous, open-ended problems and influencing how agentic AI systems are built across Amazon

Skills

Software architecture leadership

Mentor / tech lead

Distributed systems

AI/ML agent systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Rust

Observability tooling

Job description

Amazon’s Kiro team seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture of distributed coding agents, shaping multi-agent workflows and AI integration across LLM models. You will craft low-latency, scalable systems and set engineering standards.

You will mentor teams, drive design decisions, and own end-to-end technical direction for complex, high-impact projects within Amazon's GenAI coding assistant ecosystem. This role is based in Seattle, WA.