AWS Tax Engine Platform Manager

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead the AWS Tax Engine team.

You will own the architecture, development, and operations of tax calculation and collection services, aligning with product, finance, and compliance stakeholders to ensure resilient, scalable, and compliant tax solutions. The role emphasizes growing engineers, setting standards, and balancing regulatory-driven launches with long-term platform investments while maintaining a healthy

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 8+ years leading multi-tier web services.
• Experience with end-to-end SDLC and live-site operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the AWS Tax Engine engineering team, coaching and developing engineers across levels.
• Own technical direction: vision, roadmap, and strategy for tax engine across determination, calculation, and collection support.
• Ensure operational excellence: maintain health of high-volume services, improve runbooks and automation.
• Deliver the roadmap with prioritization across country launches, compliance changes, platform scaling, and AI-native initiatives.
• Support multiple customer models: AWS-liable tax, non-AWS-liable taxes, and external tenants as a service.
• Deepen domain ownership and reduce single-points of knowledge across the team.
• Collaborate with product, program management, partner teams across AWS Invoicing, marketplace, finance, and compliance.
• Advance the AI-native direction and tooling to reduce operational toil.

Skills

Engineering mgmt

Technical leadership

Web services design

Cross-team collaboration

Regulatory compliance

AI-native initiatives

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead the AWS Tax Engine team.

You will own the architecture, development, and operations of tax calculation and collection services, aligning with product, finance, and compliance stakeholders to ensure resilient, scalable, and compliant tax solutions. The role emphasizes growing engineers, setting standards, and balancing regulatory-driven launches with long-term platform investments while maintaining a healthy