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Software Development Manager, AWS SageMaker Unified Studio

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Compensation
$185–250K/yr
Location
Arlington, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Amazon Web Services is hiring a Software Development Manager for SageMaker Unified Studio, an AI-assisted development environment for analytics and machine learning customers. The manager will lead a software team building large-scale distributed cloud services and guide architecture, delivery, reliability, and technical strategy. The role also involves mentoring and hiring engineers, collaborating across teams, and working with senior executives on business targets and resources.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Distributed Systems, nice to haveBig Data, nice to haveSpark, nice to haveServerless Computing, nice to haveMachine Learning, nice to haveOwnership, nice to haveBias for Action, nice to haveInnovation, nice to haveAgile Collaboration, nice to haveCuriosity, nice to haveEngineering Team Management, requiredEngineering, requiredMulti-Tier Web Services, requiredSoftware Development Lifecycle, requiredProduct Management Collaboration, requiredRequirements Gathering, nice to haveTechnical Communication, nice to haveRecruiting, nice to haveHiring, nice to haveMentoring, nice to haveCoaching, nice to haveTeam Management, nice to have

Qualifications

3+ Years Engineering Team Management, required7+ Years Engineering Experience, required8+ Years Multi-Tier Web Services Experience, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Description

The Company:

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies.

The Group:

SageMaker Unified Studio is an AI-assisted unified development environment, designed to provide an integrated experience for customers using AWS Analytics and ML services without regard for service boundaries. It targets Data Engineers, Data Scientists, SQL Analysts and IT Administrators with persona driven experiences

Top reasons to join our team:

  • Be a catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive product

  • Solve unique and first-order problems in areas of Big Data, Spark, Distributed Systems, Serverless and Machine Learning

  • Influence and build a product that will leverage scale of resources to orchestrate data workflow

  • Be part of big data revolution in the cloud

  • Grow the leader in you to build a revolutionary product

About you:

  • Passionate in building large scale distributed systems

  • Thrive in culture of ownership, delivery and bias for action

  • Fast paced environment energizes you to be at your best

  • Innovate and invent in an agile and collaborative environment

  • Curious and eager to learn to expect more of you and others

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Key job responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a software development team responsible for rethinking traditional data warehousing, analytics, and database architectures

  • Manage the design, implementation, test, and deployment of software

  • Conceive innovative new solutions for our customers, at the intersection of multiple fields: Big Data, analytics, warehousing, and machine learning.

  • Mentor senior engineers and managers, provide leadership on complex technical issues, design tradeoffs, and feature and schedule prioritization

  • Work with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, and influence our technical and business strategy

  • Help hire talented engineers and managers

  • Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code

  • Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-torrent and dependable code

  • Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient

  • Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards

  • Own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance

  • Collaborate and influence other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud

  • Mentor other engineers, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team

A day in the life

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

About the team

SageMaker Unified Studio (SMUS) is a growing team excited to create a development experience for our Data Engineering and Data Analyst customers. We have a wide range of talented engineers on the team, and many diverse tasks that we work on day to day. We move quick, are particularly collaborative, and know how to have a good time while doing it.

About AWS

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

  • 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

  • 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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

How this job compares

Set against the 5,694 open Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$185–250K/yr
  • Virginia median$143–250K/yr167 salary ranges
  • US median$144–257K/yr4,637 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $218K, is 9% above the Virginia median midpoint ($200K) — in the middle half of Engineering Manager salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 181 open Engineering Manager jobs in Virginia and 5,694 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (4,977 postings).
Education
2,451 of the 5,694 open Engineering Manager jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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