Software Development Manager, ASBX

About the role

The AWS Builder Tools Amazon Software Provenance Tracking (ASPT) team is looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) to help us in our mission to make developers focus on coding, and making their life easier with automated software provenance and traceability. As an SDM III, you will own the delivery of the software provenance tracking tooling for Amazon developers.

Our job is to make it a pleasure to be an engineer at Amazon by taking the pain out of the mechanical parts of software development. More specifically, we own the tools Amazonians use to track and verify the provenance of their production code from end to end.

If you're excited to have a large impact in the cloud computing industry, you'll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow.

In the Amazon Software Provenance Tracking team, we

• Provide end to end provenance tracking and traceability for software artifacts across Amazon's build and release pipelines.
• Provide tools for large scale software integrity verification and governance.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high performing team of software engineers building software provenance tracking systems that operate at massive scale, serving hundreds of thousands of developers.
• Own the end to end delivery of tools that trace and verify software artifacts across build and release pipelines, ensuring full visibility into the origin and integrity of every component.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for provenance tooling, balancing near term delivery with long term platform investments aligned to security and compliance goals.
• Partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams to embed provenance tracking seamlessly into existing developer workflows, minimizing friction while maximizing coverage.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices across the team, including code quality, testing strategies, operational readiness, and incident response for mission critical infrastructure.
• Translate complex technical challenges into clear business outcomes and communicate progress, risks, and strategic direction to senior leadership.
• Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent by creating an environment where engineers do their best work and grow their careers.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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

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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually