Software Development Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. Amazon scores B on the Alion truth index.
Enabling Amazon’s explosive growth requires top talent in our Amazon Buyer Risk Technologies. Amazon is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a technical team, to deliver scalable and secure, world class solutions while maintaining a strong customer focus. You will use your technical leadership, program management and business acumen, working with global stakeholders to identify, define, and deliver scalable solutions that enable Amazon’s businesses. Our organization is building secure buyer risk and fraud prevention systems that need to scale to the exponential growth in Amazon products. We are leveraging machine learning to build systems that understand our account holder's behavior, and can detect changes in that pattern. We are building systems that leverage unique storage systems such as graph database technologies. We are building on a sophisticated rules management platform to give our machine learning scientist and investigators control over risk calculations.
We make the world a better place by finding the bad people, and make it easier for normal sellers and buyers to conduct their business.
As an experienced Software Development Manager, you will help drive the initiatives that protects customer trust and prevents fraud on Amazon. Because you take pride in setting the standard for engineering excellence, you are a hands-on, pragmatic problem solver that easily balances trade-offs between competing interests. You thrive in a fast-moving team environment where you are able to juggle complex dependencies and requirements while producing optimal solutions. Ambiguity and creativity are both expected and the norm.
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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
Preferred qualifications
- 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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