Key job responsibilities
Lead and grow a software development team building scalable services for fleet orchestration, mission planning, and airspace management, owning the architecture, development, and operation of highly available distributed services that scale with fleet size, delivery volume, and operating locations.
Establish service-level objectives for availability, latency, and reliability, and build observability, incident response, and operational mechanisms that sustain uptime and accelerate recovery, including service security, access controls, and secure development practices in partnership with security teams.
Drive integration with internal and external services through clear API contracts and resilient interfaces, partnering with scientists, systems engineers, and teams across drone software, ground systems, and flight operations to translate planning algorithms and operational requirements into reliable production capabilities.
Establish engineering practices for automated testing, deployment, rollback, capacity planning, and disaster recovery to enable frequent, dependable releases.
Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent, growing technical leaders and building a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
Define and track service health, delivery commitments, infrastructure costs, and operational outcomes, and set and communicate the technical strategy and roadmap, aligning leadership and partner teams on priorities, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
About the team
Amazon Prime Air is building a future where drones safely and efficiently deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less. Our teams are pushing the boundaries of aerospace engineering, autonomy, and software development to make this vision a reality. We operate at the intersection of advanced technology and real-world operations—and we're just getting started.
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
5+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems, or experience in professional, non-internship software development
Experience with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations or similar technical platforms, or experience interpreting flight monitoring systems or similar technical platforms
Experience with hardware/software integration and real-time systems
Master's degree or above in engineering or equivalent
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USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
