Software Development Manager, AI Foundations

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 263,000 - 356,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Software Development Manager (SDM) to own the team roadmap and ensure strategic visions are executed. You will mentor engineers, drive system delivery, and coordinate across ground and space teams to ensure mission‑critical reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, an excellent communicator, and able to manage multiple tasks with deadlines. Strong knowledge of software engineering practices and team development is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of managing engineering teams or groups.
• 7+ years working directly in engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow a diverse engineering team.
• Provide technical guidance to meet design objectives and reliability targets.
• Define team growth, vision, and organizational strategy.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to drive project success.
• Communicate risks and mitigation plans across multiple teams.
• Balance competing priorities while optimizing system performance and schedule.
• Apply critical thinking in ambiguous, time‑pressured environments.

Skills

Engineering team management

Cross-functional leadership

System architecture design

Product management liaison

Job description

Description

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) you will be responsible for owning the team’s roadmap and ensuring the strategic visions is executed. You will be responsible for gathering customer requirements, project prioritization, software quality, and system delivery. You will help mentor, develop, and the guide the engineers responsible for the system development.

As a SDM, you will lead and work with a talented team to innovate and deliver distributed software systems that enable Project Kuiper to operate and manage our satellite constellation and ground stations. You will work with engineering teams across ground and space systems to understand how the system functions and deliver an integrated solution to support successful functioning of the satellite constellation, and several supporting teams. They depend on us to have mission-critical reliability, uptime, and performance.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, an excellent communicator, have strong organizational skills, able to work independently, can juggle multiple tasks at once, and ensure deliverables meet requirements and deadlines. You should have strong knowledge software engineering practices, enjoy mentoring and developing the engineers that work on your team.

Export Control Requirement:

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Build, lead and manage a diverse team of engineers.

• Provide technical guidance for the team in addressing projects with broad scope and limited definition to ensure test and design objectives are met.

• Define team growth expectations and organization strategy.

• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure team and project success.

• Communicate fluidly across a variety of teams to identify product risks and how they will be addressed to ensure mission success.

• Juggle multiple priorities while optimizing the system and schedule.

• Apply critical thinking in complex situations, ambiguous environments and aggressive timelines.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience

• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience

• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

• 3+ years of satellite communications ground systems and operations experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Redmond - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually