Amazon Music · 8 hours ago
Software Development Manager, Amazon Music Artificial Intelligence & Personalization
Culver City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$185K/yr - $250K/yr
7+ years expAmazon Music is a leading immersive audio entertainment service that connects fans, artists, and creators. The Software Development Manager will lead engineers in building production systems that leverage AI and ML to enhance customer experiences through innovative audio and visual content.
Digital MediaMusicMusic Streaming
Responsibilities
Ship customer impact - Drive top Amazon Music priorities
Build technical excellence - Establish architecture patterns for agentic workflows, real-time AI systems, and multi-modal content generation at scale
Grow engineering talent - Develop Engineers into technical leaders through mentorship, code reviews, and strategic project ownership
Enable organizational leverage - Partner with Applied Science, Product, TPM, and cross-org teams (Alexa, Catalog, Search) to unlock platform capabilities
Balance innovation and execution - Maintain production reliability while deploying AI/ML technologies
Guide architectural decisions for services handling millions of requests with strict latency/cost requirements
Review code and design docs for AI orchestration, LLM integration, and content generation pipelines
Partner with Applied Scientists on model evaluation, prompt engineering, and quality metrics
Collaborate with Product and TPM on roadmap prioritization, launch sequencing, and customer impact measurement
Represent the team in org-wide technical reviews, operational readiness assessments, and strategic planning
Recruit, hire, and develop engineers who thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving AI/ML environments
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
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
Parental leave
Company
Amazon Music
Amazon Music is a music platform and online music store that connects fans, artists, and creators through music, podcasts, and culture. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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