Sr. Software Dev. Engineer, SageMaker JumpStart Builder Experience

About the role

Join the team that owns SageMaker's front door and plays a strategically important role in democratizing AI/ML. You will have full-stack ownership of customer-facing UI and SDK experiences for key SageMaker components, including JumpStart (a collection of ~700 pre-trained models), Model Registry, Model Cards, Projects, and Nova Escrow. This is a leadership position on a 2-pizza team in NYC, where you will drive customer experience, engineering excellence, and mentor other engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Obsess over Customers to provide a simple and secure experience and directly collaborate with these customers to make their lives easier
• Take Ownership of the customer experience to build for the long term and represent our team in discussions with the many other teams within SageMaker and beyond
• Invent and Simplify (both individually and by soliciting ideas from your team) to improve CX, OE, and EE
• Think Big to inspire and motivate the team to work on the most important problems. Don't limit yourself to components that our team directly owns
• Have Backbone; Disagree & Commit to advocate for your vision, but align with org priorities when partners or leaders have a different point of view
• Earn Trust of external customers, your team, and partners by clearly communicating technical concepts, project status, and risks
• Deliver Results by continually launching new features quickly
• Insist on the Highest Standards for usability and accessibility as well as operational and engineering excellence
• Be Right; A Lot in your judgement of what customers need and how to deliver it
• Hire and Develop the Best SDEs and FEEs by mentoring and coaching teammates and partners

What you'll do day to day

As the primary owner of our team's UIs and SDKs, you will frequently disambiguate and estimate projects, campaigns, and operational issues. You will collaborate with UX Designers, Product Managers, and other engineers to propose, design, and deliver customer-facing features; collaborate with SDMs and PEs on roadmap planning and prioritization; lead project execution, taking the most complex parts yourself and delegating others to teammates; be an active participant in recurring mechanisms like standups, ops meetings, and status reporting; and lead by example while actively mentoring teammates to increase their performance and reach their career goals.

About the team

Our team owns several distinct components, but the overall charter is making it easy and fast for customers to use the latest and greatest ML models. In this role, you will own the end customer experience of our products — the UIs, SDKs, and backing services of multiple customer-facing products. You are part of a broader org consisting of ~20 SDEs and 2 SDMs, all in NYC.

Basic qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 4+ years of full stack development experience

Pay

USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually