Description
We are looking for a Senior SDM to lead the Apollo charter within the Software Foundation Management organization. Apollo is Amazon's internal deployment platform, responsible for deploying software to thousands of services across every AWS partition and fabric, including GovCloud and ADC regions. Apollo processes millions of deployments annually and is a Tier-1 platform system critical to Amazon's operational backbone. We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead multiple engineering teams building and operating next generation of Apollo's core deployment infrastructure at Amazon scale focused on managed intent based Deployments. You will own the technical vision, operational excellence, and people development for a multi-team engineering organization across multiple teams. You will drive the strategy for Apollo's control plane services, deployment automation, and platform reliability while ensuring Amazon's deployment infrastructure remains resilient, scalable, and secure across all partitions.
Key job responsibilities
You will set the long-term technical direction for Apollo's deployment platform, balancing innovation with operational rigor for a system that underpins Amazon's entire software delivery lifecycle. You will lead a team of SDMs and Principal/Senior Engineers, building organizational capability while delivering on ambitious roadmaps. You will own the end-to-end operational posture of Apollo, driving improvements in detection, mitigation, and prevention of large-scale incidents across a globally distributed system. You will partner with senior leadership across AWS and Amazon to align Apollo's strategy with broader platform modernization initiatives, including Deployment to native EC2, and Serverless. You will make high-judgment trade-off decisions across competing priorities: customer adoption, platform reliability, security compliance, and engineering velocity. You will represent Apollo in cross-organizational forums, influencing technical direction for deployment infrastructure across Amazon. You will build a culture of operational excellence, ensuring your teams maintain the highest bar for Tier-1 service ownership, COE quality, and incident response.
We are agentic team and pioneer agentic development.
Key job responsibilities
You will set the long-term technical direction for Apollo's deployment platform, balancing innovation with operational rigor for a system that underpins Amazon's entire software delivery lifecycle. You will lead a team of SDMs and Principal/Senior Engineers, building organizational capability while delivering on ambitious roadmaps. You will own the end-to-end operational posture of Apollo, driving improvements in detection, mitigation, and prevention of large-scale incidents across a globally distributed system. You will partner with senior leadership across AWS and Amazon to align Apollo's strategy with broader platform modernization initiatives, including Deployment to native EC2, and Serverless. You will make high-judgment trade-off decisions across competing priorities: customer adoption, platform reliability, security compliance, and engineering velocity. You will represent Apollo in cross-organizational forums, influencing technical direction for deployment infrastructure across Amazon. You will build a culture of operational excellence, ensuring your teams maintain the highest bar for Tier-1 service ownership, COE quality, and incident response.
We are agentic team and pioneer agentic development.
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
USA, WA, Seattle - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually
