Senior Manager, Software Dev, Amazon Software Builder Experience / Software Foundations & Management

About the role

We are looking for a Senior SDM to lead the Apollo charter within the Software Foundation Management organization. Apollo is Amazon's internal deployment platform, responsible for deploying software to thousands of services across every AWS partition and fabric, including GovCloud and ADC regions. Apollo processes millions of deployments annually and is a Tier-1 platform system critical to Amazon's operational backbone.

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term technical direction for Apollo's deployment platform, balancing innovation with operational rigor for a system that underpins Amazon's entire software delivery lifecycle.
• Lead a team of SDMs and Principal/Senior Engineers, building organizational capability while delivering on ambitious roadmaps.
• Own the end-to-end operational posture of Apollo, driving improvements in detection, mitigation, and prevention of large-scale incidents across a globally distributed system.
• Partner with senior leadership across AWS and Amazon to align Apollo's strategy with broader platform modernization initiatives, including Deployment to native EC2, and Serverless.
• Make high-judgment trade-off decisions across competing priorities: customer adoption, platform reliability, security compliance, and engineering velocity.
• Represent Apollo in cross-organizational forums, influencing technical direction for deployment infrastructure across Amazon.
• Build a culture of operational excellence, ensuring your teams maintain the highest bar for Tier-1 service ownership, COE quality, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
• Experience with Amazon's deployment infrastructure

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $220,100.00 - $297,700.00 annually.

Schedule

Full-time