Key job responsibilities
Defining and owning the product strategy for AI-driven testing at Amazon: what to build, in what sequence, and why that sequence wins. Your strategy must be defensible to senior leadership and ambitious enough to match the rate at which agents are changing how software gets written;
Hiring, growing, and leading a large engineering team through a period of rapid expansion and increasing scope;
Partnering with your SDE, PE, and PM colleagues to translate product direction into technical architecture, and holding both accountable to coherence;
Meeting with customers across Amazon to understand how they test today, where their testing breaks down, and what would make them trust AI-generated test evidence enough to ship on it;
Driving delivery execution at a pace that matches the domain. Capabilities in this space that ship six months late ship into a world that moved on;
Owning the product vision for your area. You partner with a product manager, but the vision, the conviction, and the hard prioritization calls are yours;
Deeply shaping the direction of TestSpaces, ensuring that the execution layer and the testing-judgment layer evolve as a coherent system rather than adjacent efforts;
Communicating strategy, progress, and risk to senior leadership clearly and without hedging.
A day in the life
You lead the team building AI testing capabilities already in daily use by tens of thousands of Amazon engineers, and you are pushing those capabilities from useful individual tools into a coherent testing system that operates across the development lifecycle. On a given day you might be: working with a PE on tech strategy; reviewing architecture and tech designs with your engineers; meeting with another Amazon team as your customer; reviewing Go-To-Market progress with our PM, or presenting your roadmap to ASBX leadership and defending the sequencing choices.
Your customers are every builder at Amazon. Your immediate partners are your PE, your product manager, and the teams who own the testing platforms, deployment infrastructure, and AI coding tools that your work builds on and feeds into. The right product decisions in this space compound across the entire company.
About the team
Our group exists to make testing in the AI Development Life Cycle a solved problem rather than a growing liability. In the Testing org, our platforms execute millions of tests per day across every AWS region. Our AI systems make those platforms smarter: generating tests, diagnosing failures, measuring sufficiency, and helping builders ship with confidence. The Pipeline Test Fixer alone has surpassed 50,000 daily invocations and reduces median promotion-blocking time by 25%. TestSpaces is already validated at scale, with a sibling organization running 2 million AI-native end-to-end tests per month across 500+ production pipelines on our execution layer. The capabilities in our strategy range from production to proof-of-concept, and the person who leads this team will decide which of them become products and which get cut.
You will thrive here if you have a track record of defining product strategy in ambiguous, fast-moving technical domains; if you have built and led high-performing engineering teams through periods of growth; and if you have the conviction to make hard calls on what to build, and what to stop building, when the landscape shifts under you.
3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of engineering experience
8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
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
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
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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, VA, Arlington - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
