Deployment Platform Lead: Fast, Safe Builder Rollouts

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Managed Software Deployments team. You will own the control plane for the deployment mechanism and drive speed and safety at scale for Amazon builders.

You will hire and grow a high-performing team, partner with product leaders, and deliver scalable, available systems used by tens of thousands of engineers. This role blends operator-facing and developer-facing product work in a fast-moving environment.

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.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow a diverse team of engineers.
• Own the control plane for code deployment
• Obsess over the builder experience for internal builders — solicit needs, synthesize feedback, and turn it into the roadmap.
• Deliver highly available, scalable systems that hold up when teams depend on them most.
• Drive adoption of agent-first execution, increasing volume, velocity, and safety at the same time.
• Balance reactive response and proactive prevention across the roadmap.
• Set team growth expectations and org strategy.
• Communicate fluidly across teams to surface product risks and how they will be addressed.
• Apply critical thinking in complex, ambiguous, time-pressured situations.
• Drive leadership reviews to align roadmap and delivery across business domains.

Skills

Engineering management

Leadership

System design

Web services

Product collaboration

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Managed Software Deployments team. You will own the control plane for the deployment mechanism and drive speed and safety at scale for Amazon builders.

You will hire and grow a high-performing team, partner with product leaders, and deliver scalable, available systems used by tens of thousands of engineers. This role blends operator-facing and developer-facing product work in a fast-moving environment.