Drimva

Amazon

Director, Software Development, Builder Operations, Amazon SW Builder Experience

$264K–$350K

Seattle, WA · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026

Experience
10+ years in software development; 5+ years managing people, including 3+ years managing multiple managers or teams. Master's or PhD preferred with 10+ years of relevant experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

About the job

Leads Amazon’s Builder Operations organization and its incident management, change management, and operational-safety platforms, advancing collaboration between human operators and AI agents.

What you'll do

  • Set Builder Ops vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, and own incident management, change management, and operational safety across regions.
  • Drive agentic operations and lead a multi-team engineering organization, developing leaders and improving product quality and operational excellence.
  • Align execution across Amazon and influence senior-level strategy and technical direction through written narratives and data.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years of software development experience, including architecting fault-tolerant, highly available systems at scale.
  • 5+ years managing people, including 3+ years managing multiple managers or teams.
  • Experience developing long-term technical vision and strategy, influencing leadership decisions, and delivering large-scale customer-facing products on scalable architecture.

Nice to have

  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, with 10+ years of relevant experience.
  • Experience in SRE, DevOps, incident management, operational excellence, or agentic/AI-driven operations platforms at high scale.

Pay

264,100.00 - 350,000.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

AI agents

AI focus

Lead the shift to agentic operations by defining safe, high-speed collaboration between AI agents and human operators.

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