
Senior Software Development Manager, Traffic Engineering
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Job overview
Amazon Traffic Engineering builds managed compute and networking solutions for Amazon’s software engineers, supporting secure, highly available, scalable services and global infrastructure expansion. The Senior Manager will own service-oriented connectivity architecture, builder experience, and regional expansion. The role combines technical roadmap ownership and hands-on architectural guidance with engineering team leadership, organizational alignment, delivery planning, and operational improvement.
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Description
Amazon Traffic Engineering builds innovative managed compute and networking solutions that empower Amazon Software Engineers to build and operate services for Amazon’s customers that are secure, highly available, and easy to scale. We identify and support the foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets needed to support rapid global expansion of Amazon's SOA (Service Oriented Infrastructure) infrastructure, built on top of AWS technologies. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices, driving adoption of ever-evolving AWS technologies.
As a Senior Manager, you will own SDO's service oriented connectivity architecture, builder experience and regional expansion at Amazon. Our team builds and operates innovative hosted compute platforms that empower Amazon's retail engineers to build architectures for their business solutions that are secure, available, productive, and cost efficient.
This position requires direct experience leading teams and managing large deliverables to run Amazon-scale infrastructure. Your role will be multifaceted, combining strategic vision with hands-on technical expertise. You'll shape the long-term technical roadmap and set ambitious goals to drive performance improvements that benefit our customers. A key aspect of your role will be fostering a thriving engineering community, aligning organizational leaders on priorities, and optimizing resource allocation to achieve critical objectives. Your technical acumen will be put to the test as you identify architectural bottlenecks, develop proof-of-concepts, and guide senior engineers in crafting robust technical solutions. You'll be instrumental in streamlining delivery timelines through strategic engineering plans. Communication will be crucial as you keep senior leadership informed, navigate risks, and make judicious technical trade-offs to maximize customer impact. Your commitment to quality will be evident in your meticulous focus on metrics, implementation of automation to reduce operational burden, and emphasis on scalable tools to address operational challenges. This quality-first mindset will inspire and permeate throughout your team.
Our vision is to make Amazon’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) more manageable and developers more productive by building an ecosystem of managed abstractions that allow Amazon Retail developers to focus on their unique business logic and business operations, knowing that security, authentication, authorization, load balancing, throttling and routing “just work” and are always consistent with Amazon best practices.
Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more flexible!
Key job responsibilities
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10+ years of engineering experience
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5+ years of engineering team management experience, including managing managers
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10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
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Experience partnering with product or program management teams
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Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Basic Qualifications
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10+ years of engineering experience
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10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
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5+ years of engineering team management experience
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Experience partnering with product or program management teams
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Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience partnering with product and program management teams
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Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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 .
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,063 open Engineering Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$220–298K/yr
- Washington median$182–282K/yr55 salary ranges
- US median$148–264K/yr1,657 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $259K, is 11% above the Washington median midpoint ($233K) — in the middle half of Engineering Management salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 63 open Engineering Management jobs in Washington and 2,063 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Engineering Management postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (1,722 postings).
- Education
- 859 of the 2,063 open Engineering Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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