Description
As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
The Amazon Agentic WorkSpaces organization is looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the future of secure, high-performance agentic WorkSpaces Applications environments. This leader will be responsible for scaling our multi-session business and developing an industry-leading provisioning and management experience for WorkSpaces Applications that power millions of human users and AI agents. These environments span the full spectrum of customer needs, including desktops, applications, serving knowledge workers, task workers, and automation agents.
As a Sr. SDM in this role, you will champion an automation-first, AI-native mindset to build solutions that dynamically configure environments based on customer needs. You will obsess about minimizing the operational burden on administrators while maximizing their control and agility. This means anticipating the day-to-day needs of administrators and our partners, and embedding those capabilities directly into the architecture, reducing manual effort through thoughtful design, intelligent defaults, and self-service mechanisms. You will meet administrators where they are—building solutions that work for customers who are already cloud-native as well as those beginning their cloud journey.
You will own the operational excellence and security posture of the WorkSpaces Applications fleet. This includes establishing industry-leading security practices, enabling rapid and safe fleet-wide changes, and building scalable, reusable mechanisms that simplify operations and accelerate delivery across the business. A core expectation is to champion simplicity and consistency, ensuring solutions are implemented once and leveraged broadly to maximize velocity, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
In this role, you will lead multiple software development teams to evolve and create data architectures and product solutions that are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. You will proactively identify technology gaps and opportunities, participate in strategic initiatives spanning 1-3 years, and write effective communications including Mission statements, Tenets, and PR/FAQs. Your decisions will impact software architecture and major products across the our portfolio.
A day in the life
AWS is on a mission to transform how businesses operate by delivering intelligent, cloud-powered applications. Our Applied AI Solutions organization accelerates customer success through intuitive, differentiated technology that solves enduring business challenges — blending vision with real-world expertise to build turnkey solutions that are easy to adopt and built to scale.
Within this organization, we are building the next generation of secure, intelligent workspaces — environments purpose-built for human-AI collaboration at enterprise scale.
About the team
ABOUT AWS:
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and 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.
The Amazon Agentic WorkSpaces organization is looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the future of secure, high-performance agentic WorkSpaces Applications environments. This leader will be responsible for scaling our multi-session business and developing an industry-leading provisioning and management experience for WorkSpaces Applications that power millions of human users and AI agents. These environments span the full spectrum of customer needs, including desktops, applications, serving knowledge workers, task workers, and automation agents.
As a Sr. SDM in this role, you will champion an automation-first, AI-native mindset to build solutions that dynamically configure environments based on customer needs. You will obsess about minimizing the operational burden on administrators while maximizing their control and agility. This means anticipating the day-to-day needs of administrators and our partners, and embedding those capabilities directly into the architecture, reducing manual effort through thoughtful design, intelligent defaults, and self-service mechanisms. You will meet administrators where they are—building solutions that work for customers who are already cloud-native as well as those beginning their cloud journey.
You will own the operational excellence and security posture of the WorkSpaces Applications fleet. This includes establishing industry-leading security practices, enabling rapid and safe fleet-wide changes, and building scalable, reusable mechanisms that simplify operations and accelerate delivery across the business. A core expectation is to champion simplicity and consistency, ensuring solutions are implemented once and leveraged broadly to maximize velocity, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
In this role, you will lead multiple software development teams to evolve and create data architectures and product solutions that are exemplary in terms of robustness, stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. You will proactively identify technology gaps and opportunities, participate in strategic initiatives spanning 1-3 years, and write effective communications including Mission statements, Tenets, and PR/FAQs. Your decisions will impact software architecture and major products across the our portfolio.
A day in the life
AWS is on a mission to transform how businesses operate by delivering intelligent, cloud-powered applications. Our Applied AI Solutions organization accelerates customer success through intuitive, differentiated technology that solves enduring business challenges — blending vision with real-world expertise to build turnkey solutions that are easy to adopt and built to scale.
Within this organization, we are building the next generation of secure, intelligent workspaces — environments purpose-built for human-AI collaboration at enterprise scale.
About the team
ABOUT AWS:
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and 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.
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
