Software Development Manager, Amazon Customer Service

Want to build technology and tools used by Amazons Customer Service team worldwide We are looking for a Software Development Manager passionate about building the future capabilities needed by leaders across CS to operate our network. Ultimately the products this team develops will play a key role in enabling Amazon to continue raising the bar and deliver the highest quality service with every interaction. Youll have an enthusiasm for creative problem solving and ready to work with others to deliver all-new solutions within Customer Service.

This is a hands on leadership role where you will have the opportunity to both deliver new technologies and recruit high performing talent to a new team. You should be excited about building a team and about developing the next generation of operations technologies for Customer Service. We are looking for a proven leader who is excited to be as close to their customers as their own team. We want someone who has a record of driving technical innovation and who will drive high standards in software engineering.

We operate with high ownership and minimal hierarchy. If you want to see your work directly shape new technologies within a global operation this is the team.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end delivery of the engineering roadmap: manage sprint cadence remove blockers track milestones and communicate status
- Lead a team of engineers to design build and operate full-stack web applications
- Hire develop and retain a high-performing team
- Partner with product leaders to translate requirements into well-scoped prioritized engineering plans
- Drive engineering excellence: set coding standards design review culture and operational best practices across the team
- Own team-level security compliance and risk posture
- Identify and resolve technical debt and systemic risks before they become production issues
- Build peer relationships with engineering managers across CS
- Own operational health for production services: SLOs on-call health incident management practices and post-incident review culture
- Support engineers growth by providing regular feedback coaching and clear career development paths

About the team
This role is part of Service Resource Management a team within Customer Service. We work on the largest opportunities to unlock step-change improvements in how our network serves customers WW. We are future-focussed working backwards from a multi-year outlook. We are a small multi-disciplinary team. We like it that way as we can move fast and work together on some of the most impactful opportunities to deliver exemplary service to Amazons customers.

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams 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
- Experience with iterative agile development methodologies (including scrum)
- Experience with web services cloud infrastructure and system design
- Experience operating consumer-facing web applications with high reliability requirements

- 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 in application security architecture security code reviews security testing incident response or security infrastructure
- 5 years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent) system network and operating system experience or Bachelors degree in business administration finance economics computer science data science engineering or other related field
- Experience leading engineering teams building AI/ML or generative AI-powered products in production
- Familiarity with customer service operations workforce management or financial and operational tooling domains

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 WA Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually