Director, AI-Driven Builder Ops & DevOps

Amazon Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 264,000 - 350,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead Builder Ops, the platform enabling DevOps for Amazon teams across regions. You will own the vision for incident management, change management, and agent-supervised development, shaping a large-scale engineering organization and strategy.

You will drive collaboration across ASBX and Amazon to accelerate innovation while maintaining reliability and security at scale.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
10+ years of software development experience, including architecting fault-tolerant, highly available systems at scale.
5+ years managing people, with 3+ years managing multiple managers or teams.
Experience developing long-term technical vision and strategy and influencing leadership decisions.
Experience delivering large-scale, customer-facing products on scalable architecture.

Responsibilities

Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Builder Ops, connecting it to builder impact: code quality, reliability, security, developer productivity, and the shift to agent-supervised development.
Own Amazon's incident management, change management, and operational-safety capabilities across all regions.
Drive agentic operations, defining how AI agents and human operators collaborate at Amazon's safety bar at machine-speed.
Lead and grow a multi-team engineering organization: develop leaders, attract Principal Engineers, and build the leadership bench.
Drive product quality and operational excellence end to end while accelerating innovation velocity.
Partner across ASBX and Amazon to align execution with strategy and orchestrate shared solutions.
Influence strategy and technical direction at the most senior levels of the company through clear written narrative and data; briefs at CEO-level reviews.