Amazon

Software Development Manager, Alexa AI Logistics for Infrastructure, Cost, & Efficiency

Amazon$184K — $250K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of engineering team management experience
  • 7+ years working in engineering teams
  • 3+ years of designing or architecting systems
  • 8+ years leading development of multi-tier web services
  • Knowledge of full software/hardware/networks development life cycle

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of Software Development Engineers for inference service components
  • Own and operate a centralized inference service for model management
  • Ensure inference services meet latency and throughput criteria
  • Build solutions to optimize GPU and compute resources
  • Drive infrastructure expansion into new AWS regions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align capabilities

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
Key job responsibilities

You will lead a team of Software Development Engineers responsible for critical inference service components within ALICE's portfolio, with a primary focus on building and operating a centralized inference management service that sits at the heart of Alexa's AI infrastructure.

Your team will be responsible for:

- Owning and operating a centralized inference service that manages model access, capacity utilization, and intelligent traffic prioritization and throttling at massive scale

- Ensuring inference services meet Alexa's stringent latency and throughput requirements, with comprehensive observability and monitoring

- Building solutions that maximize the efficiency of GPU and compute resources, including scheduling systems that optimize workload execution across real-time and offline inference traffic

- Driving infrastructure expansion into new AWS regions to support Alexa's international growth

- Collaborating with teams across Alexa, AGI, and AWS to align inference service capabilities with evolving product and infrastructure needs

You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.

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

- 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

- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

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

- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

- Experience in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

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.

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