Sr. SDM, Rendering Foundations

We are looking for a Senior SDM to build the next generation of Amazons rendering architecture. As a Sr. SDM you will directly impact the look and feel of and its mobile app worldwide. Your products will be used by thousands of builders and hundreds of teams within Amazon to create innovative CX for Amazon. You will tackle hard technical problems with an experienced team to achieve a solution that scales to Amazons developer ecosystem.

In this role you will be a manager of managers and provide leadership on complex issues. You will set the priorities for the team and make smart tradeoffs to aid your team in delivering some of our most strategic technical projects. A successful candidate is expected to be able to deep dive into their teams technical strategy and approach. They are expected to set a high bar for all phases of the software development life-cycle including: design development documentation testing experimentation and operations. They will possess strong verbal and written communication skills and thrive in fast paced environments. Were looking for passionate people who love to innovate and care deeply about creating the best quality experiences to our customers.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow an organization to accelerate CX builders to experiment on the Amazon Store.
- Own the strategy and stakeholder partnership to drive adoption of our products.
- Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the teams ability to meet strategic financial and technical goals.
- Own the communication with leadership and WW partner teams.
- Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners.
- Create and execute the near and long term roadmap for the team.

- 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

- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale high-traffic applications
- Experience building services for federated front end applications.

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The base salary for this position ranges from $214200/year up to $357800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.