Description

Are you interested in leading a team to build scalable, state-of-the-art software systems that help make LLM smarter through knowledge grounding? Do you enjoy working with teams of engineers and scientists to develop novel solutions to tough technical challenges?

Amazon is looking for a Sr. Software Development Manager (Sr SDM) to tackle some of the most interesting problems on the leading edge of information retrieval (IR) with our AGI Web Information Services team. WIS aims to reinvent efficient information retrieval for a multi-modal future on scale. We enable customers to interact with unstructured and semi-structured content via a broad range of customer experiences including question answering, summarization, search, and multi-turn dialogues.

Key job responsibilities

• Hire and develop the best. You will help grow and develop a team of engineers, growing their careers and empowering them to achieve amazing things.

• Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team identify technical and product requirements and opportunities. Use project management and prioritization skills to balance long and short-term goals and deliver on your product roadmap.

• Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. Lead your team to evolve and scale our service architecture.

• Drive continual improvements: Set and iteratively improve team processes and mechanisms to make sure the right things get prioritized and work gets done efficiently.

A day in the life

A mix of helping the team architect our systems for massive scale, collaborating with science and customers to define product requirements and structure our roadmap, establishing the bar for operational excellence, driving efficiency in our software development processes, career coaching and mentorship, collaborating with sister teams, and interviewing.

About the team

Our team is a mix of software engineers and applied scientists building a scalable, state-of-the-art information retrieval system supporting several instances for different grounding capabilities. Our members are geographically distributed across the east and west coast, but we’re highly collaborative.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Ca, CA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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

• Information Retrieval

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams

• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $176,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $342,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.