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# Software Development Manager, Classification&Policy Platform

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $212,700.0 - $287,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Code Review, Software Design Patterns, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, Web Services, Build Process, Multiaccess Edge Computing, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28057958/Software-Development-Manager-Classification-Policy-Platform-California-Sunnyvale-7375

## About the Role

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 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

## Description

Want to teach machines to search for needles in a haystack? Ever wonder how you can keep the world's largest selection also the world's safest and legally compliant selection? Then come join a team with the charter to monitor and classify the billions of items in the Amazon catalog to ensure compliance with various legal regulations. The Classification & Policy Platform team is looking for an outstanding Software Development Manager to lead the team that builds technology to automatically monitor the billions of products on the Amazon platform. The software and processes built by this team are a critical component of building a catalog that our customers trust.
You will have an opportunity to work with cutting edge machine learning algorithms on large datasets. Your team will need to build Amazon scale applications running on Amazon Cloud that both leverage and create new technologies to process large volumes of data that derive patterns and conclusions from the data.