Software Development Manager, Programming Foundations, ASBX

About the role

ASBX is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the team, product, and engineering strategy for AI-driven testing capabilities at Amazon. These systems decide what to test, write the tests, explain failures, and close the loop fast enough for agents to self-correct without human intervention. You will define the strategy for how AI-powered testing evolves from early adoption (10K+ monthly active users) into the default way every team at Amazon validates software in the AI Development Life Cycle. You will own the product vision, roadmap, team, and results, force-multiplying an already shipping team by sharpening strategy, raising ambition, and delivering at a pace matching the problem's speed.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product strategy for AI-driven testing at Amazon: what to build, in what sequence, and why that sequence wins. Your strategy must be defensible to senior leadership and ambitious enough to match the rate at which agents are changing software development.
• Hire, grow, and lead a large engineering team through rapid expansion and increasing scope.
• Partner with SDE, PE, and PM colleagues to translate product direction into technical architecture, holding both accountable to coherence.
• Meet with customers across Amazon to understand their testing pain points and what would make them trust AI-generated test evidence enough to ship on it.
• Drive delivery execution at a pace matching the domain; capabilities shipped six months late may miss the market.
• Own the product vision for your area, partnering with a product manager but making the hard prioritization calls yourself.
• Shape the direction of TestSpaces, ensuring the execution and testing-judgment layers evolve as a coherent system.
• Communicate strategy, progress, and risk to senior leadership clearly and without hedging.

A day in the life

You lead the team building AI testing capabilities used daily by tens of thousands of Amazon engineers, pushing these tools from individual utilities into a coherent testing system across the development lifecycle. On a given day, you might: work with a PE on tech strategy; review architecture and designs with engineers; meet with Amazon teams as your customers; review Go-To-Market progress with your PM; or present your roadmap to ASBX leadership, defending sequencing choices.

About the team

Programming Foundations exists to make testing in the AI Development Life Cycle a solved problem. The Testing org executes millions of tests daily across every AWS region, with AI systems making these platforms smarter—generating tests, diagnosing failures, measuring sufficiency, and helping builders ship confidently. The Pipeline Test Fixer alone surpasses 50,000 daily invocations, reducing median promotion-blocking time by 25%. TestSpaces is validated at scale, with a sibling organization running 2 million AI-native end-to-end tests monthly across 500+ production pipelines. You will decide which capabilities become products and which get cut.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
• 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for the software development lifecycle.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness.

Skills

You will thrive here if you have a track record of defining product strategy in ambiguous, fast-moving technical domains; building and leading high-performing engineering teams through growth; and making hard calls on what to build or stop building when the landscape shifts.

Pay

Base salary range: $184,900–$250,200 USD annually (USA, WA, Seattle). Your package includes sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with options for supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.