Software Development Manager, Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX)

We're hiring an entrepreneurial engineering leader for the Code Services team in Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX). We own all source control at Amazon: GitFarm, GitHub, and GitLab. These are the foundational infrastructure where every line of Amazon code lives. Amazon builds on our platforms. Millions of repositories, hundreds of thousands of production systems, and every AI agent writing code at Amazon today push changes to infrastructure we own and operate.

AI is transforming who builds and how they build at Amazon. Engineers, AI agents, and automated systems are pushing code, creating repositories, and interacting with source control at unprecedented scale: billions of code operations flow through our platforms every month. The Code Services team is at the center of this shift: we build the infrastructure that makes agentic development possible while operating the platforms that must remain rock-solid as usage patterns fundamentally change.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy, design, development, and operations for Amazon's source control platforms serving the entire Amazon builder ecosystem.
• Hire, retain, and grow top engineering talent; build a high-performing team capable of operating critical infrastructure at Amazon scale while shipping innovative new capabilities.
• Own the product roadmap for your area, working with senior leadership to define strategy that balances platform reliability, scalability, and the evolving needs of AI-native development.
• Architect solutions that scale with Amazon's growth — millions of repositories, hundreds of thousands of developers, and an expanding population of AI agents and automated systems interacting with source control.
• Drive AI-native operations and tooling — from AI-assisted incident resolution to enabling agentic workflows that depend on programmatic source control access.
• Obsess over the developer experience for Amazon's diverse builder community
• Collaborate across ASBX and partner teams to deliver a unified, secure, and seamless source control experience
• Operate critical developer infrastructure with the highest bar for availability, security, and performance.

A day in the life
As an SDM in ASBX Code Services, you balance platform engineering, product thinking, and people leadership. You work with internal customers across Amazon to understand how source control needs are evolving, whether that's scaling for monorepo workloads or enabling AI agents to interact with code safely. You lead your team through planning, design, and delivery while ensuring operational excellence for services that cannot go down. You grow engineers into leaders and foster a culture where AI is a force multiplier.

About the team
The ASBX Code Services team owns the infrastructure where Amazon code lives. Amazon's internal SCM hosts millions of repositories and serves the majority of Amazon's builders. GitHub Enterprise manages Amazon's external open-source presence and internal private repositories — powering how Amazon collaborates with the global developer community across platforms like GitHub, npm, and PyPI, while supporting thousands of enterprise users internally. GitLab extends our platform portfolio for customer-facing and cross-organizational workloads, serving one of the largest GitLab installations in the world.

Basic qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• 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

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
• 4+ years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually