Are you interested in working at the Amazon Store scale? Are you interested in accelerating store builders to help Amazon innovate faster? Come join us as we are re-inventing Amazon’s Store architecture and building the future runtime architecture to deliver mobile and website shopping experiences that millions of Amazon customers use every day.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead development of a central runtime that handles Amazon’s most important shopping workloads. You will use your technical skills, leadership, and partnership to lead a team of software engineers tasked with building a service with high performance, resilience, and scalability. You will have the opportunity to partner with other leaders while diving deep into distributed systems that serve hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. As a software development manager, you will take ownership of your team’s feature roadmap, development processes, and operations, while building a culture of operational excellence.

Key job responsibilities
Manage a team of software development engineers responsible for building an operating a tier-1 service that operates at the scale of the Amazon Store within an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment

Own the complete software development lifecycle for Amazon’s core shopping runtime. Define, prioritize, design, and lead implementation and testing of new features

Deliver new features while meeting/exceeding system SLAs (e.g. Availability, Latency)

Work with your team to define and develop an inclusive team culture that fosters individual growth and team success.

Provide a work environment that allows employees to have fun and advance in their careers.

A day in the life
This is a wide-ranging role that involves partnering closely with other technical leaders, engaging with internal customers (e.g., Store Builders), and influencing program leaders. It requires managing overall execution and delivery by a specialized team that is at the center of Amazon’s next-generation architecture. One day you may be contributing to key documents, and another you may be leading sprint planning for your team, or general product prioritization and execution. Next, you may be plugged into an important operational issue that is impacting the health of the Store, influencing your team to make the best decision for the customer in the moment.

About the team
This role will focus on Dram ownership and evolution, which is a Tier-1 rendering orchestration service. Dram separates the concerns of generating content and User Experience (UX), so that UX developers can focus on their components (called painters) without having to worry about different rendering stacks across Pages and Experiences. We orchestrate rendering on many pages across Amazon retail with some of our biggest customers being Detail Page, Search, Homepage, Cart and Navigation.