AmazonSDM, Mobile App Foundations - Quality and Release
Amazon is hiring an SDM, Mobile App Foundations - Quality and Release in Seattle, United States. It pays $185k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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Leads the mobile app release and quality team to build robust pipelines, automated testing, and release mechanisms for iOS and Android.
Amazon Shopping mobile engineers have a diverse range of skills and talents and we can't wait to harness your passion to make our team even stronger. We set and raise the bar on the mobile app shopping experience by building engineering frameworks, tools, and code used by thousands of developers across Amazon. The Release & Quality team is central to that bar: we own the release pipeline and quality enforcement that thousands of Amazon developers depend on to ship to the Amazon Shopping app. We think in terms of frameworks not features; stability, scaling, and performance over using technology to solve problems.
As SDM for Release & Quality, you will lead a team responsible for the end-to-end health of the mobile release process across iOS and Android.
Your charter includes:
- Owning the release cadence and publication decision mechanisms, and the operational excellence and automation that keep releases predictable and on schedule.
- Raising the quality bar through automated testing enforcement and building regression detection mechanisms.
- Instrumenting release health, including dial-up monitoring, so issues are caught early and decisions are data-driven.
- Reducing operational burden by identifying systemic gaps and investing in automation and tooling rather than one-off fixes.
- Partnering closely with TPMs, partner mobile teams, and app store operations to align priorities, resolve release blockers, and manage escalations.
About you: You are a technical leader looking to build and expand on your passion for mobile. You want to build durable mechanisms that make releasing software fully automated, safe, repeatable, and fast. You think about quality and release as an engineering system, not a checklist, and you insist on the highest standards while keeping the team unblocked and shipping. You are comfortable diving deep into release incidents and metrics to find root causes, and you hold a high bar for accuracy in the status and signals your team produces. You want to challenge yourself to solve complex problems at scale that have never been encountered anywhere else. You enjoy managing a team, helping engineers grow their skills, and you earn trust with partners by turning ambiguous, cross-team release problems into clear plans with owners and dates.
About us: We're going to change the way customers shop on mobile. Along the way, we're going to face challenging and interesting problems that no one else has seen. We'll leverage our camaraderie, diversity, and strong culture to break down walls to find solutions that challenge our original assumptions, make the hard decisions, and deliver a final product that's superior to the proposals we started with.
Have the passion to build and the drive to change how we ship mobile apps? Join us!
Key job responsibilities
- Lead a team to accelerate mobile app releases while insisting on the highest standard for quality
- Influence design and architecture by sharing your mobile application development expertise
- Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
- Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or mobile application, and serve as a technical lead on complex projects.
- Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined.
- Design and define the interaction between the solution components and other systems where applicable.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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
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