Manager, Software Development, Private Brands

Amazon is hiring a Manager, Software Development, Private Brands in Seattle, United States. It pays $185k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Bedrock, Java and AWS.
Level classifies it as a lead role.
Level lists 21,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
The role was posted within the past week.

AI in this role

Leads a software engineering team building data, workflow, and AI agent platforms using AWS and Amazon Bedrock.

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The Amazon Private Brands (APB) team is building the shared data, workflow, and AI agent platform that powers the next generation of APB products. As the Software Development Manager for the team, you'll own the vision, execution, and health of the platform, from dynamic data management and task orchestration to AI agent infrastructure built on Amazon Bedrock. You'll lead a team of engineers, set technical and organizational direction, and partner closely with consuming teams to ensure the platform scales to meet the org's needs.

Beyond leading delivery, we're looking for someone who operates with high ownership and broad impact. The right candidate doesn't just manage execution, they identify what needs to be built, align stakeholders across the org, and build the team and mechanisms to drive it to completion. They grow the engineers around them, raise the bar on technical and operational excellence, and leave both the team and the codebase in a better state than they found them.

Key job 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

Basic qualifications

- 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
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
- Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices
- Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences

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

How we rate this

Manager, Software Development, Private Brands at Amazon rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Manager, Software Development, Private Brands is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $185k-$250k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on October 21, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Questions you could be asked

How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
Walk me through how you've used Bedrock in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Java that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used AWS hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Ecs in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, Bedrock, Java, AWS, and Ecs. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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