Description

We own AI-powered content quality and security validation services used by thousands of AWS builders and internal AWS services to ensure technical documentation, training materials, and customer-facing content meets the highest standards of technical accuracy and security compliance.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager who is passionate about leading a team that owns the design and development of a machine learning-based content assessment systems that supports AWS's extensive content ecosystem.

This team works on challenges including natural language processing, distributed system design, scalable API development, machine learning model integration, and automated testing frameworks. The role involves building serverless architectures, selecting and implementing appropriate AWS based solutions, designing complex content processing pipelines, and ensuring high availability and performance at massive scale.

As a Software Development Manager you will work closely with a diverse and talented team of engineers and product managers to ideate, build, operate, and scale, impactful customer facing features across the full product development lifecycle. You will leverage your experience and unique skills to grow engineers individual careers, and deliver impactful projects to our customers. You are open to learning new skills, growing your career, being mentored, and mentoring others. You’ll collaborate with people and other teams across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security. You’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Our ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for working on behalf of customers, have a track record of on-time delivery of large scale projects, and have the ability to operate independently and autonomously. This individual will be able to understand complex problems and identify areas where they will need to have their team invest, to ensure they are able to support the anticipated growth and future requirements of the services. Maturity, judgment, communication skills, negotiation skills and influencing skills are all essential as you will interact with cross-functional teams worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
· Recruit, hire, mentor, and manage teams of software engineers.
· Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
· Interface with the product manager and internal customers to understand requirements, set priorities, and communicate direction and progress.
· Own the operational health of your team’s software
· Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech requirements on time and with a high-degree of precision and quality.
· Coordinate with stakeholders in other groups, drive alignment across multiple orgs on shared goals and initiatives
· Make long term org design decisions, architectural decisions.
· Help develop long-term business and technology strategies.
· Drive improvements in software engineering practices.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace, there’s nothing we can’t achieve