Requirements

• Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
• 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 in leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services
• Experience partnering with product and 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
• Experience building products leveraging large language models, generative AI, or agentic AI systems

What You'll Be Doing

• Influence the strategic direction and vision of the organization through an understanding of the intersection of business/customer needs and technical capabilities
• Provide technical leadership, vision and career guidance to team members
• Create a culture of pride in engineering and operational excellence and drive best practices within teams and across organization
• Be strategic about defining and building an engineering culture that takes ownership and delivers high-performance engineering solutions
• Work closely with technical (engineering and science) teams, design, and product/program management in an agile environment to deliver the best technical designs and approaches
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints

Perks and Benefits

• Chance to build and launch AI-powered customer experiences
• Work closely with exceptional product, engineering, and science leaders
• Opportunity to shape the future of shopping at Amazon