Software Development Manager, Training and Certification

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

AWS Training and Certification helps millions of builders learn the cloud, and AWS Skill Builder is where that learning happens for individuals and the organizations they work in. The Skill Builder Learner Experience team owns what the learner sees and does: discovery, learning plans, progress, and the AI-powered experiences that are changing how people learn.

We are hiring a Software Development Manager to lead a new engineering team inside Skill Builder Learner Experience. This team builds the foundations the rest of the learner experience runs on: the experimentation capabilities that let us test and ship changes safely, the API layer that fronts our learner-facing services, and the services behind our AI-assisted learning experiences. You will set the technical direction for the team, hire and grow its engineers, and partner with product, science, and the other Learner Experience teams in the US and Korea to turn a roadmap into shipped experiences.

At Amazon we hire hands-on managers. You will go deep on architecture, operations, and delivery, and you will be expected to make good calls with incomplete information. You will own the health of your services in production and the growth of the people who build them.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and develop a team of software development engineers, setting a high bar for engineering quality, operational excellence, and inclusive team culture
• Own the technical vision and roadmap for the team"s services: experimentation, the learner-facing API layer, learner services for AI-assisted learning
• Partner with product management, applied science, and peer engineering teams to define what to build, sequence it, and deliver it on committed dates
• Drive architecture and design reviews, and make the trade-off calls between speed, scale, security, and cost
• Own production operations for the team"s services, including on-call health, availability, and continuous reduction of operational load
• Report progress, risks, and decisions clearly to senior leadership and stakeholders across Training and Certification
• Build the team"s engineering practices around AI-assisted development so the team ships faster without lowering the quality bar

A day in the life

You start the day reviewing an experiment readout with your product partner and deciding whether to ramp a new learner-facing feature. Mid-morning you sit in a design review for a change to the API layer"s authorization model, pushing on failure modes and rollout plan. In the afternoon you write the weekly business review for your services and spend an hour with a candidate in a hiring loop. You spend time the later afternoon with the engineering lead on their growth plan, then join a sync with the Korea-based team on a shared dependency.

About the team

Skill Builder Learner Experience is the engineering organization behind the learner-facing side of AWS Skill Builder. We run several engineering teams across the US and Korea, covering search and discovery, learning plans and progress, the learner dashboard and support experiences, and AI-assisted learning. This role leads a newly formed team that owns the shared foundations those experiences depend on. We value engineers and leaders who are curious, who go deep, and who care about the learner at the other end of the screen.

About AWS

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