Software Development Manager, Amazon Leo | Customer Experience

Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by serving a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity. The Customer Experience organization at Amazon Leo owns the customer-facing digital experiences enabling consumers, businesses, and enterprise partners to discover, purchase, and manage satellite connectivity services. Our surfaces span the consumer and business websites, the enterprise partner console, and the consumer mobile app. We sit at the intersection of commerce, service management, and connectivity, and we work closely with product, business, design, and backend teams to deliver a seamless end-to-end experience for every Amazon Leo customer. We are seeking an innovative and customer-obsessed Software Development Manager to build and lead an engineering team at Amazon Leo. In this role, you'll own the design and delivery of the customer-facing products that power Amazon Leo's business across both consumer (B2C) and business (B2B) segments, building from the ground up in a fast-moving environment. You'll lead through senior engineers and tech leads, foster a culture of rapid innovation and quick iteration where experimentation thrives, and grow both the team and its scope over time. This is a high-ownership role with a clear path to expand into broader organizational leadership, including developing and managing other managers as the team scales. Your vision and leadership will be crucial in creating durable, well-architected solutions that raise the bar on customer experience and operational efficiency. We're offering exciting opportunities to: • Build, lead, and scale an engineering team that directly delivers customer-facing products across Amazon Leo's B2C and B2B segments • Own products end to end, from concept through launch and operation, for consumers and business customers worldwide • Grow into broader organizational scope over time, including developing senior engineers and future managers as the team expands • Invent and build with AI: leverage generative AI throughout the development lifecycle to accelerate delivery while maintaining high engineering standards • Shape customer experience: work directly with product managers (PMs), business stakeholders, and operations teams to define and deliver a great customer experience across consumer and business audiences • Drive high-impact work: your products directly serve consumers and businesses globally, improving reliability, performance, and satisfaction • Build greenfield systems from scratch that operate at global scale • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape the future of Amazon Leo's products and services • Contribute to the strategic direction of Amazon Leo's technology roadmap The ideal candidate will have: • A passion for leveraging technology to solve complex, large-scale challenges • A proven track record of leading engineering teams to deliver impactful, customer-facing products at scale • Experience delivering products across consumer (B2C) and business (B2B) segments, or a strong ability to reason about the needs of both • Experience developing engineers and leaders, and growing the scope and headcount of a team over time • A strong technical background with the ability to guide architectural decisions • Experience building cloud-native systems on AWS, including modern AI/ML integration patterns where applicable • Excellent leadership skills with a focus on mentoring and developing engineering talent, including growing senior individual contributors and emerging leaders • Strategic thinking to balance short-term needs with long-term vision