AI-Native Software Engineering Manager

Amazon Inc.; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a team building the AI foundation and agenting capabilities for Leo's network. You will own the roadmap, architect agentic AI systems, and collaborate with satellites, gateways, and customer terminals to deliver secure, production-ready solutions.

The role requires strong leadership, deep AI knowledge, and the ability to drive multi-team initiatives in a fast-moving, safety-conscious environment.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and people-management experience in software teams.
• Experience designing AI-enabled systems and scalable architectures.
• Ability to translate strategic AI goals into engineering roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and develop a team of software engineers and applied scientists, from hiring and onboarding through career growth and performance.
• Own the team's roadmap and delivery: translate the AI Foundations charter into goals, milestones and launches, and report progress and risks to senior leadership.
• Lead the technical design and architecture of agentic AI systems for Leo, covering agent development, data integration and the platform services that connect agents to Leo's knowledge and systems.
• Bring deep, current knowledge of AI, including large language models, agent frameworks, retrieval and evaluation methods, and apply it to guide the team's technical choices and to raise the AI fluency of the partner teams you work with.
• Deliver production AI systems with the evaluation, access controls and operational readiness required to act on a live network, and expand agent autonomy only as evidence shows it is safe and effective.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-team initiatives, including infrastructure migrations and platform improvements, with domain teams who retain ownership of their services.
• Set and uphold the engineering bar for the team: design and security reviews, testing, operational excellence and on-call health.
• Make prioritization calls in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, balancing stability against new capabilities, and communicate trade-offs clearly.

Skills

Leadership

Software architecture

AI & ML

Hiring & mentoring

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Amazon Leo seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a team building the AI foundation and agenting capabilities for Leo's network. You will own the roadmap, architect agentic AI systems, and collaborate with satellites, gateways, and customer terminals to deliver secure, production-ready solutions.

The role requires strong leadership, deep AI knowledge, and the ability to drive multi-team initiatives in a fast-moving, safety-conscious environment.