Software Development Manager, Region Flexibility and Efficiency

As a software development manager in the Region Flexibility and Efficiency organization, you will play an essential role in building the software services, frameworks, and components at the forefront of Amazon"s service-oriented architecture. You will be integral in shaping the direction of our team, how we use state-of-the-art technologies to influence the way thousands of engineers interact with our products. You will be empowered to define the goals, strategy, roadmap and success metrics for this brand new team.

In this role you will lead our infrastructure-efficiency and cross region data-migration charter at Amazon scale. The systems in scope are production, mission-critical services processing millions of transactions, running across a large fleet of AWS accounts and infrastructure. Efficiency gains translate into large, fleet-wide capacity and cost impact.

You"ll lead a team of 10-12 engineers driving large-scale DRAM allocation reduction across these production fleets and building the tooling and agentic workflows that make multi-region dataset migrations safe, automated, and repeatable, without compromising the availability of systems Amazon"s customers and internal teams depend on every day.

This role spans people leadership, technical depth, and cross-org execution. You"ll grow and develop the team, own the roadmap, dive deep on system design and efficiency, and influence partners across multiple orgs to deliver outcomes end-to-end. The team has a strong track record of realized efficiency savings and of automation that has cut manual analysis from weeks to hours, all applied safely against production workloads.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead your team to solve intriguing problems in software architecture with highly scalable solutions, guiding your team in choosing the right technologies
• Define the strategy, prioritization and engineering roadmap for your team & influence across
• Directly influence your team's product design and architectural direction while collaborating with different teams across the company
• Hire and develop the industry's best talent to build highly collaborative and functional teams
• Identify opportunities and implement innovative solutions to improve developer experience for thousands of teams at Amazon

A day in the life

In this role, you will manage products and programs and deliver through a highly collaborative team that you help build. You will partner closely with senior leaders across Amazon, and frequently influence their programs and product roadmaps. One day you may be contributing to strategy documents, and another day developing your engineering talent. You will also regularly improve product operational metrics and drive operational excellence initiatives that measurably improve your team's productivity and job satisfaction.

If this role sounds interesting to you, please send us your application using the Apply Now function. We look forward to hearing from you!

About the team

The Region Flexibility and Efficiency organization supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon"s infrastructure. Our products support all Amazon businesses like Worldwide Stores, Alexa, Kindle, and Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving and state-of-the-art technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions that are simple to use and are delivered utilizing engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers.