AmazonSoftware Development Manager, AWS Transform
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Manager, AWS Transform in Boston, United States. It pays $185k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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Lead a software development team in designing, building, and operating scalable systems while driving technical vision and engineering excellence.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing software development team, providing coaching, mentorship, and career development guidance to engineers across multiple levels while building a strong talent pipeline through effective hiring practices.
- Own the technical strategy and 1–2 year product roadmap for your team's software systems, defining priorities that align with organizational goals and customer needs while making transparent tradeoffs on scope, resources, and timelines.
- Drive system design decisions across your team's architecture, ensuring solutions meet scalability, performance, security, and maintainability requirements while reducing complexity and technical debt over time.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners—including product, program management, and peer engineering teams—to align on priorities, resolve dependencies, and deliver cohesive solutions that improve the customer experience.
- Establish operational excellence practices including metrics, audit mechanisms, and quality standards that enable your team to maintain healthy systems, respond effectively to issues, and continuously improve delivery processes.
A day in the life
You start your morning reviewing operational metrics and system health dashboards for the services your team owns. Mid-morning, you join a design review where your engineers walk through a proposed architecture, and you ask questions that sharpen the approach. After lunch, you have a one-on-one with a direct report to discuss their career goals and map out a development plan. Later, you partner with a product manager to refine upcoming priorities and evaluate tradeoffs. You close the day by reviewing a narrative document a team member drafted, providing written feedback to strengthen the proposal before a broader leadership review.
About the team
Our team is focused on building software systems that directly impact Amazon's customers at scale. We value collaboration, technical rigor, and a commitment to getting the details right. Engineers here have the opportunity to work on challenging problems, grow their skills, and contribute to products that serve a global customer base. We are building an inclusive team culture where every voice is heard, new ideas are encouraged, and we support each other in delivering meaningful results. If you are excited about leading engineers, shaping technical strategy, and making a lasting impact, this is the place for you.
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, MA, Boston - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
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