Software Development Manager, Ads AI Core Services, Builder Productivity
Amazon · Seattle, WA
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Jul 10, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A management role leading an engineering team focused on AI-native developer tooling within Amazon Ads. The work centers on building agent-based systems for code generation, orchestration, and automated deployment workflows aimed at improving how thousands of engineers across the Ads organization ship software. The ideal candidate has a background in managing engineering teams and designing large-scale, multi-tier services.
Senior level · 7+ years · National · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA field is left blank. Amazon typically posts this type of role in Seattle, WA or New York, NY, but no city is stated here.
The role is a people-management position (Software Development Manager) with explicit direct-report hiring, mentoring, and team-building responsibilities — classified as 11-3021. The alt code 15-1252 reflects that the JD also emphasizes deep hands-on technical scope (AI-native tooling, agent orchestration, autonomous code generation).
The '7+ years working directly within engineering teams' requirement is used as the overall years minimum because it is the broadest role-level experience gate. The '3+ years of management' and '8+ years of multi-tier web services' are captured as skill-level year demands.
AI-native development, agent orchestration, and LLM-related skills appear throughout the narrative and key responsibilities but are NOT listed under a formal required-qualifications heading — treated as preferred/context rather than hard gates.
No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): engineering team management, systems architecture, multi-tier web services, agent orchestration.
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