Amazon
Software Development Manager, AWS SDKs and Tools
$185K–$250K
Seattle, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years engineering team management; 7+ years working directly within engineering teams; 3+ years designing or architecting systems; 8+ years leading definition and development of multi tier web services.
About the job
Leads a Seattle-based team building and maintaining AWS SDKs, setting technical direction and roadmap while supporting customers and the open-source community.
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, and develop a team of about 8–12 software engineers, including feedback and career growth.
- Own SDK roadmap and make tradeoffs among features, quality, maintainability, and backward compatibility.
- Stay involved in technical designs, code reviews, and operational decisions; collaborate with customers and other SDK teams.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
- 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems experience.
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience; knowledge of full software/hardware/networks development life cycle practices; experience partnering with product or program management teams.
Nice to have
- Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, features, designs, and strategy.
- Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing software engineering teams.
Pay
184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS SDKs
AI focus
The SDKs and tools are used by developers and agents to build on AWS; the role does not specify AI development work.
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