Software Development Manager Prime Science

Amazon Primes Science organization leads the Research & Development towards innovation for Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is the backbone of Amazons consumer business and aspires to be the worlds most engaging satisfying and loved membership program driving growth and profitability. The program serves over 200 million members across 25 countries and is key to Amazons customer growth and engagement. Prime Science innovates in Artificial Intelligence (inc. Gen AI) and Economics to develop algorithms and systems for automated marketing personalization targeting and decisioning. Within the engineering group in Prime Science we develop world class solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems at Amazon scale. You will work alongside world class scientists to build a suite of fully automated scalable and robust products driven by the engineering systems you lead.

In this role you will lead a dedicated team of software engineers in building software that scales the unique science WW and across Amazon. If you have experience leading a team in building and supporting applications at scale or are passionate about the space and would like to learn with us we want to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
Lead teams to design and build science products that scale to 100s of millions of customers
Work alongside a multidisciplinary team to deliver with high quality on hard problems
Interface with internal customers to understand requirements set priorities and communicate direction and progress.
Recruit hire mentor and manage a team of software engineers
Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
Own all operational metrics and support for your teams software.
Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech requirements on time and with a highdegree of precision and quality.


A day in the life
You will set the vision for team and ensure every day the team is working towards the vision together. You will work directly with leading scientists to develop scalable solutions to enable science into decision making across Prime and across Amazon. You will work with stakeholders to communication and prioritize the most impactful features. You will mentor and grow your team into a high performing team delivering outsized value for our customers.

About the team
The Prime Science engineering team under the Prime Science organization is working to working to deliver science products that impact 100s of millions customers world wide. We advance the state of the art on science systems to unlock a delightful customer experience. This is a unique opportunity to work in a start up like mode in Amazon on new science.


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

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
Experience building products using machine learning artificial intelligence and/or economics. A degree in a data science statistics math or related fields to machine learning.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.