Software Development Manager, Transact

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Manager, Transact in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Lead an engineering team building foundational data movement solutions and multi-region infrastructure.

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Join our Transact organization as a Software Development Manager and shape how Amazon moves critical data across regions, enabling services to operate with greater flexibility and resilience. You'll lead a talented engineering team in designing and deploying innovative data movement solutions that reduce latency for customers worldwide and strengthen our infrastructure against regional failures.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead and develop your engineering team to design, develop, deploy, and support key features of data movement tools while maintaining current system stability
- Drive architectural initiatives that enable services to operate across regions while retaining critical business functions within specific regions
- Build and nurture your team through recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and fostering a positive team culture where engineers grow and thrive
- Connect with customers and cross-functional partners regularly to gather requirements, build the team roadmap, and collaborate with product and partner teams on new projects
- Champion engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operational excellence

A day in the life
As a Software Development Manager in the Transact organization, you'll balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical engagement. Your day might include collaborating with your engineering team on architectural decisions for data movement tools, connecting with customers to understand their evolving needs, and working alongside product and partner teams to refine the roadmap. You'll mentor engineers through complex technical challenges, participate in design reviews that shape our multi-region strategy, and help navigate the trade-offs between supporting current systems and building next-generation capabilities. Your work directly impacts how Amazon's services—from Stores to Prime Video—operate reliably across the globe.

About the team
We are a team of builders focused on providing Amazon with foundational technologies for transaction storage, configuration management, and safe data movement. Our work supports critical Amazon businesses and helps teams adopt evolving AWS and non-AWS technologies. We partner closely with AWS teams to improve public offerings while maintaining a commitment to robust, scalable solutions delivered with engineering best practices. We value simplicity, reliability, and solutions that "just work" for millions of people using Amazon's products daily. When you join us, you'll be part of a collaborative group that appreciates the importance of infrastructure that enables other teams to delight customers.

Basic qualifications

- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

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

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.

How we rate this

Software Development Manager, Transact at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Software Development Manager, Transact is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on August 5, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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