Senior Software Development Manager - Distributed Coding Agents, Kiro

We"re looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the development of a broad set of tools that ensure engineers build correct, performant distributed systems with the help of AI. Your team will push forward our agenda on generating distributed systems, and build the distributed AI-powered tooling layer around it.

This is a high-autonomy role. You will build and scale the organization, set multi-year strategy, and ship software that changes how distributed systems get built.

Key job responsibilities

• Own and scale an organization of engineers building tooling for correctness and efficiency in distributed systems
• Set multi-year technical strategy for how AI agents integrate into the distributed systems development lifecycle - from automated protocol verification to intelligent testing and code generation
• Drive org-level decisions: team structure, investment allocation, build vs. partner vs. open-source tradeoffs
• Collaborate with internal Amazon teams, customers, and the open-source community
• Represent the team"s vision to senior leadership and across organizational boundaries
• Hire, develop, and retain engineers who care about systems correctness
• Make high-judgment technical decisions across systems programming, compiler/runtime design, and distributed systems design
• Influence the broader organization"s approach to distributed systems quality and AI-assisted development

About the team

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