Software Development Manager – Platform & AI Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSU program

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA, seeks a Manager of Software Development for the Private Brands platform. You will own the vision and health of a data, workflow, and AI agent platform powering APB products, leading a team of engineers from design through deployment.

You will drive architecture, API contracts, and cross-team integrations while growing engineers and partnering with product leadership to deliver scalable, reliable systems on AWS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 3+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience.
• 7+ years of engineering 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

• Lead, hire, and develop a team of engineers building high-availability backend services in Java on AWS (ECS, RDS, EventBridge, Lambda)
• Own the technical roadmap across all platform areas including data management, task lifecycle, and agent infrastructure, and prioritize against org-wide needs
• Guide architecture decisions and review design docs that influence how APB teams build on top of the platform
• Drive cross-team integrations, ensuring the APIs and contracts your team defines meet the needs of downstream teams
• Grow engineers through coaching, career development, and feedback, and raise the technical bar through engineering standards and mechanisms
• Partner with product and leadership to translate business requirements into a scalable technical strategy and staffed execution plan
• Own the operational health of what your team builds, establish on-call, monitoring, and incident response practices, and drive continuous improvement
• Manage team planning, delivery, and stakeholder communication, balancing short-term commitments with long-term platform investment

Skills

Java backend development

Engineering leadership

Team management

AWS experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

AWS (ECS)

RDS

EventBridge

Lambda

Architecture reviews

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA, seeks a Manager of Software Development for the Private Brands platform. You will own the vision and health of a data, workflow, and AI agent platform powering APB products, leading a team of engineers from design through deployment.

You will drive architecture, API contracts, and cross-team integrations while growing engineers and partnering with product leadership to deliver scalable, reliable systems on AWS.