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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