GenAI Identity Platform Engineering Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon's Item Identity team is building the definitive source of truth for every product in the world's largest catalog—a GenAI-powered identity platform that must reason across text, images, and structured data to answer what a product is. We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the team that establishes and maintains product identity at this unprecedented scale.

As a leadership role, you will define the technical vision, mentor engineers and scientists, partner with product

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of GenAI/ML systems at catalog scale.
• Define and communicate a clear technical vision and multi-year roadmap.
• Balance speed and accuracy so friction hits only where identity is genuinely uncertain.
• Define and drive the quality bar using measurable outcomes tied to customer and seller experience.
• Partner across engineering, product, and science, and represent direction to senior leaders.
• Establish operational excellence: reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency with clear metrics and mechanisms to sustain quality as the system scales.
• Hire, develop, and retain the team, and raise the engineering and operational-excellence bar.

Skills

Engineering leadership

ML/GenAI systems

Team management

Architecture design

Stakeholder collaboration

Software development lifecycle

Job description

Amazon's Item Identity team is building the definitive source of truth for every product in the world's largest catalog—a GenAI-powered identity platform that must reason across text, images, and structured data to answer what a product is. We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the team that establishes and maintains product identity at this unprecedented scale.

As a leadership role, you will define the technical vision, mentor engineers and scientists, partner with product