Software Development Engineer, Kiro Web at Amazon
Portland, OR
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Aug 4, 2026
Portland, OR
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-focused software development role on AWS's Kiro team, building the server-side systems that power a local web application for managing AI agent sessions. The work centers on process orchestration (spawning and managing CLI child processes), WebSocket fan-out gateways, REST APIs for multi-agent coordination, and a global distribution platform using CloudFront. Suits engineers comfortable with Node.js/TypeScript systems programming and real-time, distributed architectures.
Mid level · 3+ years · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 4 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 410 people in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 150–540
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $159,430 (middle half $128,996–$177,877). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 5, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
The Basic Qualifications gate on '1+ years of designing and developing large-scale distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl' — these four languages are listed as interchangeable alternatives for a single requirement. The actual day-to-day stack is TypeScript/Node.js/Fastify, which appear in the job responsibilities and team tech-stack sections rather than the formal qualifications block; however, given the role is explicitly described as building these systems, they are treated as hard requirements.
The posting lists a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field as a Basic Qualification with no explicit 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard degree requirement.
CloudFront and pnpm appear only in the team tech-stack narrative ('About the team'), not in the formal qualifications, so they are marked preferred.
The salary range ($143,700–$194,400/year) is listed for Portland, OR specifically; the team spans Seattle and Portland per the posting.
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