Engineering Manager, Optimization API Platform (AI)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Insights and Optimizations (AIO) team seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Optimization Control Plane, owning vision, architecture, and delivery of a scalable API platform that serves globally distributed customers.

You will grow and develop a high‑performing team of engineers, drive the 2026 roadmap including generative AI enhancements, and collaborate with partner teams to align on business objectives and reliable delivery.

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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Obsess about customer needs and deliver the exceptional recommendation product experience
• Lead the development and implementation of a highly efficient and reliable API platform
• Own the end to end software development lifecycle from requirements gathering to implementations
• Build an AI-native development team that uses generative AI to raise the bar on engineering velocity and quality
• Collaborate and influence partner teams to align on business objectives
• Operate a public AWS service with Globally distributed customers and services
• Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions

Skills

Engineering management

Engineering teamwork

System design

Web services leadership

SDLC ownership

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Amazon's AWS Insights and Optimizations (AIO) team seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Optimization Control Plane, owning vision, architecture, and delivery of a scalable API platform that serves globally distributed customers.

You will grow and develop a high‑performing team of engineers, drive the 2026 roadmap including generative AI enhancements, and collaborate with partner teams to align on business objectives and reliable delivery.