Software Development Manager, ALX SIERRA

As an SDM in ALX SIERRA (Science Insights Experience Research Reporting & Analytics) youll lead a team of software engineers requiring partnership across frontend backend applied science UX and data engineering functions to integrate Generative AI and ML into Amazon Leadership Experience (ALX) products and processes.

You will define a roadmap that works backwards from our three year and operational plans and as the leader of your team you are responsible for establishing mechanisms to manage delivery and ensure quality of the software delivered by your team. You will hire develop and structure your team for harmony and efficiency and you will support your team by establishing vision managing tradeoffs and setting expectations with stakeholders.

A day in the life
Interview a candidate for a new role on the team
Present a strategy document to your stakeholders to drive alignment on team roadmap
Attend a team-level operations review meeting to understand system health
Review a design document produced by engineers on the team and provide feedback to ensure alignment with overall product strategy and stakeholder needs
Hold 1:1s with members of the team to provide them with feedback support and context
Meet with a customer to understand a problem they need your team to solve
Escalate an issue to remove a blocker for the team

About the team
Amazon Leadership Experience (ALX) SIERRA (Science Insights Experience Research Reporting & Analytics) is a horizontal multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to be a force multiplier for the broader ALX organization and our key customer cohorts. We accomplish this by using our expertise in data analytics and science economics machine learning (ML) UX I/O psychology and engineering to build insights and experiences that raise the bar in understanding and shaping decision making at scale by integrating within and across talent journeys as well as through self-service tools and closed loop mechanisms outside of those journeys. Our portfolio of products spans foundational data sources metrics and research through to finished features and products that our end-customers interact with on a daily basis.

- 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

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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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.