Software Development Manager, WW Sustainability

Amazon; 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’s Worldwide Sustainability invites an experienced Software Development Manager to lead the engineering team that builds and operates the environment intelligence platform. You will set technical direction, manage engineers, and stay hands-on to make hard calls.

You will partner with researchers, deploy AI/ML in production, own external-grade APIs, and drive AI-native engineering practices while delivering reliable, scalable software that informs sustainability decisions.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own production systems that business unit leaders, finance teams, and external partners depend on for numbers they report publicly.
• Lead a team of software development engineers directly; hands-on technical involvement at level 6.
• Set technical direction and architecture — API design, system reliability, AI/ML production infrastructure, and debt management.
• Own the engineering operating model: production reliability, incident response, deployment practices, and on-call.
• Drive AI-native engineering practices: AI-assisted development and testing as standard workflow.

Skills

Engineering management

Hands-on engineering

System design & architecture

Web services leadership

SDLC & operations

Job description

Join us at the forefront of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon’s scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally, and drive solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable.

Amazon's Worldwide Sustainability team is building the science and technology infrastructure that makes our sustainability commitments real — auditable, automated, and actionable at Amazon's scale. With in Sustainability team, the Environment intelligence platform team goal is to deliver environmental data and intelligence that enables Amazon to meet regulatory disclosure requirements, measure environmental footprint to inform reduction and mitigation investment decisions, and integrate sustainability metrics into WWS Program and Business Unit decision-making systems and processes.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the engineering team building and operating this platform. This is a player-coach role — you will set technical direction, manage and grow a team of engineers, and stay close enough to the code and architecture to make the hard technical calls yourself. You will own production systems that business unit leaders, finance teams, and external partners depend on for numbers they report publicly and use to make consequential decisions.

This role sits at a distinctive intersection: technical depth and organizational scope at the same time. You will partner with research and sustainability scientists whose methodologies — increasingly AI and ML-enabled — your team implements in production. You will own an external-grade API surface that commercial sustainability products depend on to serve customers outside Amazon. And you will build an AI-native engineering team: one that builds AI/ML systems in production *and* uses AI-assisted development and testing as standard workflow, measuring success by the pace at which new capabilities reach customers reliably.

Your ability to communicate and influence others will be a key to success. You are a results-oriented, customer-focused manager who gets excited about diving deep, running hard, and delivering a big impact.

Key job responsibilities

Environment Intelligence Systems:

• - Every footprint calculation that any Amazon business unit or external partner relies on runs through systems you own and operate
• - External-grade API surface consumed by commercial sustainability products — versioned, rate-limited, documented, and reliable at external SLAs
• - Assurance & Decision-making: All data must be fully explainable to assurance providers, external stakeholders and enable rapid decision making
• - Carbon Facts and Assumptions

Engineering & People Leadership:

• - Lead a team of software development engineers directly; this is an level 6 player-coach role with hands-on technical involvement
• - Set technical direction and architecture — API design, system reliability, AI/ML production infrastructure, and technical debt management
• - Own the engineering operating model: production reliability, incident response, deployment practices, and on-call
• - Own model serving infrastructure, inference pipelines, model observability, and automated retraining pipelines
• - Drive AI-native engineering practices: AI-assisted development and testing as standard workflow, measured by velocity and reliability of customer-facing delivery
• - Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent

Science-to-Production Boundary:

• - Receive methodology and model specifications from the science team and build the production infrastructure that makes them reliable at scale
• - Triage production failures independently and surface systematic patterns back to the science team on a defined cadence

About the team

Diverse Experiences:

World Wide Sustainability values diverse experiences. We encourage all candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture:

It’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (inclusive diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth:

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• - Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• - Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually